38629 - need a way for people outside netscape to stage to ftp.mozilla.org

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 50228

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P3)

Description

[Dawn Endico]

We need to let people outside netscape put stuff on the ftp site.
its my understanding that the current staging mechanism would erase 
any files that are put directly in the ftp directory which means
that having ssh access to komodo isn't enough.

Bugzilla sourceballs are currently kept on
http://webtools.mozilla.org/tarballs/ since that was the easiest
place for Terry to put them because he had ssh access to lounge but
no access to the ftp site.  These files however, really belong on 
the ftp site. There are other people we should give access to as well.

Comment 1

[Risto Kotalampi]

Waiting for new staging server to arrive.

Comment 2

[Risto Kotalampi]

Waiting for new servers. 

Comment 3

[Risto Kotalampi]

Here's an interesting problem we need to find a secure solution. I thought you 
might find this interesting and I'd like to assign this ticket to you. This is 
very important issue because we will probably have to implement similar solution 
to our other clients and having it implemented first to mozilla.org will then 
enable us to leverage it to busapps and wit if they'll need it.

So, the story is this... mozilla.org is staging all data in 
/share/systems/mozilla/ftp and it's mirrored to ftp.mozilla.org with rsync 
scripts. But this means that only internal people can add files to 
ftp.mozilla.org. 

So, we need to find a solution to add files to ftp.mozilla.org from elsewhere as 
well, and people being able to upload _securely_ files to the other staging 
area. I still want to do everything by staging and not let anyone to put files 
to ftp.mozilla.org directly to maintain better security.

There are some web based tools available for things like this, or maybe we could 
do chrooted environment where people can scp stuff, maybe rsync uploads (well, 
we alsom have to think all platforms). There are many ways to do it and I'd like 
you to to look into alternatives and implement this. If this is done well and we 
have a good tool for this (which ftp uploads is NOT) it will be very valuable 
and useful for many groups.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Comment 4

[Risto Kotalampi]

Steve, please don't consider this as high priority. We have to focus to other 
areas in near future because of the merger. So, only touch this if you have 
extra cycles available.

Comment 5

[Risto Kotalampi]

*** Bug 50228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Dawn Endico]

noting that the order for the new ftp staging server was lost
and that the prospects for this order getting re-generated are
slim.

Also, the merger won't happen for many months. We need external ftp
staging now.

I've filed bug 50228 to discuss setting up an ftp-stage server at
sourceforge. Feel free to comment there. I would have used this bug
to discuss this but this bug now has a further scope than just 
mozilla.org

Comment 7

[Risto Kotalampi]

Bug #50228 makes this obsolete.

Comment 8

[Risto Kotalampi]

Let's reopen this... some new development regarding this after meeting with 
Mitchell today.

Comment 9

[Risto Kotalampi]

Moving to nobody until we have better picture of where we'll be going with 
mozilla.org support by IC.

Comment 10

[Dawn Endico]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50228 ***

Comment 11

[Matt Perry]

Verified dupe