[BlueOnyx:22003] BlueOnyx updates: Net2FTP integration

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

BlueOnyx 5207R, 5208R and 5209R just received an update that integrates
Net2FTP into the GUI:

https://www.blueonyx.it/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=230&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01pagelimit=4&cntnt01returnid=54

Teaching new users how to use a FTP client can be somewhat burdensome as
most of the newer crowd is already too used to use web based upload
mechanisms such as you find in applications like Wordpress.

To make things a bit easier we just added an integration of Net2FTP.
This is a slightly modified version that removes the login form, ties
Net2FTP into our CCEd for authentication and locks it down so that it
can only connect to the server that it is installed on.

It is available in the "Programs" menu under the menu entry "File Manager".

By default it is only available to users who match the following criteria:

 - User is 'admin' or a 'systemAdministrator'.
 - User is not a 'reseller'.
 - User is a siteAdmin.
 - User is a member of a Vsite that has 'FTP available
   for non-siteAdmin' enabled.

In order to work you - of course - must have FTP enabled on your
BlueOnyx itself.

Net2FTP can also connect to the server by SSH and provide the same
functionality it does via FTP. However: In that case the user account
must have Shell access enabled and SSH must allow password
authentication. For user 'admin' and 'systemAdministrator' SSH will be
used (if present, enabled and password authentication is possible),
otherwise it'll use FTP instead.

Via the "File Manager" menu entry a user can upload/download files, can
copy, move, delete, rename, chmod, Zip or Unzip files and/or folders. It
is also possible to upload Zipfiles and to have them directly extracted.
Editing and viewing of files is also possible. All this of course
assumes that the user has sufficient privileges to do so via FTP (or SSH
- if used instead).

By clicking on the bent arrow in the upper right corner you can open the
Net2FTP window in a bigger (and resizeable) pop-up window.

Although Net2FTP is reachable on an external URL at the GUI ports it can
only be used if accessed via the GUI interface for security reasons.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber