Re: SEUL: SEUL-PUB Page : All Changes Done

[Roger R Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

(Holy cow, Roger's reading his mail.)

> Roger,
> If you feel it's good enough, can you move it to the right directory? What is
> the procedure being followed by the group? Does the person modifying the page
> moves it to the right location or does a designated person do it?

It used to be everybody is in charge of his own files, has an account on
cran, and does checkins (to cvs) whenever there's an update.

I introduced a bug in this system a few months back, though, such that
files are updated onto the live webpage with permissions 700 (so apache
can't read them), so you have to go over to the live webpage and fix
that after each checkin.

Pete has volunteered to fix this bug (Hi Pete :) but I expect it will
be a while, simply from sheer volume of stuff I'm working on these days.

Until then, send me a pointer to the file and I'll update it. And I
promise I won't take forever this time. :)
 
> I have one more question regarding SSH.
> Currently, since I am inside the firewall at the office, I am unable to connect
> to ssh.seul.org. At home, I am using Win98/IE for web browsing & hence can't use
> the SSH available for *NIX platforms. I did find a SSH trialware product  for
> Win9X/NT (www.datafellows.com). But costs $99. Till I upgrade my WinModem to
> LinModem, I intend to upload files in the following manner. Please let me know
> whether there are any security holes with this procedure:
> 
> 1.  Edit all HTML files locally
> 2. Open a normal FTP connection to ftp.linuxstart.com (where I have an account)
> 3. Upload all files
> 4. Connect to http://ssh.seul.org/ and login to cran using the Java Applet.
> 5. From within cran secure shell, open a normal (insecure?) FTP connection to
> ftp.linuxstart.com and move files from ftp.linuxstart.com to cran

This last connection will in fact be insecure. It's not a wise thing to do.
The better alternative is to ftp to cran and login as ftp rather than your
username, then cd to pub/seul/incoming/ and upload your files there.
Then connect to cran via ssh, and mv your files out of
/home/ftp/pub/seul/incoming to wherever you want them to go.
 
Thanks!
--Roger