[BlueOnyx:22006] Re: BlueOnyx updates: Net2FTP integration

[Meaulnes Legler @ MailList]

hey Michael, this is very very cool!

But it has a tiny flaw: the navigation somehow doesn't understand symbolic links...

If root wants to go to the web directory of a virtual site in a ssh shell, cd /home/sites/www.virtual_site.tld/web/ would do it because /sites/ is an symbolic link that lists all www sites by name. This is convenient because the «unlinked» way would be over /home/.sites/ and the number of the site, which nobody knows be heart, I guess.

The File Manager changes to the /sites/ directory but doesn't list all the virtual sites as directories, but as files, not as symbolic links. See low res screenshot.

Thank you and best regards

Meaulnes Legler
Zurich, Switzerland
+41 44 2601660


On 04.05.18 02:35, Michael Stauber wrote:
> 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.

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