-----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:50 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question, is, sftp problems Constance Morris wrote: > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx > Constance Morris wrote: >> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx >> Constance Morris wrote: > <snip> >>> problem last week with having started these updates then stopped >>> them mid-stream when some of our professors could not ssh to the >>> webserver using Expression Web software via SFTP? >> <snip> >>> Our Network Administrator suggested that my problem with the SSH / >>> SFTP Expression Web Websever access was due to there being different >>> versions on the system now because of the updates. He said I needed >>> to check the versions of both and may need to uninstall SSH, compile >>> a version from source that will work with SFTP. >> >> No. Not under any circumstances. What kind of admin is he, Windows? >> Because that is absolutely the WRONG answer. You can check yourself - >> run rpm -qa | grep ssh then rpm -qi openssh-clients > <snip> >> Those rpm commands (rpm -qa | grep ssh and rpm -qi openssh-clients) >> did produce the information I needed and all are the same: >> >> Openssh-clients-4.3p2-82.e15 >> Openssh-4 .3p2-82.e15 >> Openssh-server-4.3p2-82.e15 >> > You'll note they all match. There's no incompatibilities. <snip> >> The weird thing is that two of them get the same login error message >> and a third gets something different. >> Here are the errors: >> "FTP Error...Cannot open remote folder pac-2013/ Access Denied." >> And the other login error: >> "There is no site name "whatever the home directory location is for >> the user". > > The latter tells me that this user does not have it configured, and I > assume, possibly wrongly, that one of youse guys needs to go into > wherever you manage users and set it up for him. It also leads me to > suspect that the other two users are misconfigured. > > Yup. I just googled on Web Expression configure sftp, and found this link: > <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc295154%28v=expression.30%29 > .aspx> Someone needs to go there and check those three users' > configurations. > I forgot to mention yesterday that when I ram the 'rpm -qi > openssh-clients' command that though it gave me the same version and > release information as the other command (rpm -qa | grep ssh) - it > also mentioned an install date of April 29 2013. > That was the date I had re-registered the server with red hat and let > it start those errata updates automatically and then stopped them when > told by a fellow co-worker that wasn't a good idea. Which is also the > day that the professor starting not being able to login to expression > web 4 in order to access their website on the server for updating. > Could that mean that I overrode a previous install date? Ok, there's one answer: yum reinstall openssh\*. which will reinstall fully. > > I checked out the link you gave me (thank you!), but the person has to > be logged into Expression Web in order to access the connection > settings. I logged in as myself and followed the instructions just to > see if it would let me create the connection for someone else, but it didn't work. Hmmm... I just googled Expression Web, and found the wikipedia entry, and see that it's client-only, that there's no setup on the server side, which is what I was thinking there was. Is this stuff installed on each user's machine? If so, I think someone (you? the other guy?) needs to go over to the three people, and go through their configuration of the tool. Btw, I find interesting that it was code named quartz... since there was a free, and running under Linux, web design package named quartz 10 or 12 years ago, which leads to the question of whether M$ stole it. > > May I impose upon you one more time? > My 2 predecessors left me two different commands in setting up new > users and their directories on the server for expression web access. > I'm going to list both and do you mind looking over them and giving me your opinion? > I've used both to create test users and directories to try and resolve > this login issue for expression web, but neither are working for me, > so I'm either doing something wrong or missing something. > > 1.) useradd -d /var/www/html/faculty-staff -s > /opt/openssh/libexec/sftp-server -g sftp -G www,faculty-staff username > > * Now, I know you or Robert mentioned last time that it should really > be /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server instead of the /opt/openssh/libexec.... > > 2.) useradd -m -k /var/www/userSkel -G faculty-staff,www -g sftp -s > /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server -d /var/www/html/faculty-staff/username > And then the next command: cp -ir /var/www/userSkel/* > /var/www/html/faculty-staff/username Constance, *do* read man useradd. That will show you that the latter, in your case, is probably better, since *if* /var/www/userSkel is populated correctly, this will set up your users' home directories with the necessary configuration files, like .bash_profile, .bashrc, and presumably the ~user/.ssh directory and contents. Note that it says clearly, in the man page, for the -k flag, that it does everything that the cp does, and better. Oh, and IIRC, you're new to Linux and/or sysadmin, so remember that you can also man man.... (read the manpage for man) <g> mark -------- Thanks Mark. I did read over the useradd man page before writing you, but I wanted to make sure I was understanding things correctly. However, I did not know there was a manpage on man. :-) I will try the other suggestions you made and thanks again. Have a great weekend! Constance -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
