No more right click terminal

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Fri Jul 15 21:33:50 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:24 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> said:
> > What do you use ssh for?
> 
> Accessing remote systems, for any number of reasons.
> 
> If you need to make a change to a big file on a remote web server, which
> is better:
> 
> - ssh in and edit it with $EDITOR of choice
> - transfer the file to your local system, edit it, and transfer it back

Or:

- Use a web page editing tool which knows how to invoke ssh or ftp or
  webdav or whatever?

Note that one could use GEdit (since it supports SFTP via gnome-vfs) as
a basic web page editing tool now if we just fixed the bug that it
refuses to save files over gnome-vfs (because the maintainers are on
crack).

> Also, since there's no way to set SELinux attributes via FTP or SFTP,
> the only way to do so is via ssh.

Yes, that's a bug.  One I personally want to see fixed (for SFTP at
least).

> And these are _not_ just system administrator things; we've got a few
> thousand users that do things like this 

Right, but what you are doing is working around the lack of a good web
page editing tool, which is a bug.






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