[Mageia-sysadm] Storage space on mageia servers

Tue Apr 3 16:57:19 CEST 2012

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Michael Scherer wrote:
+
+> Le mardi 03 avril 2012 à 14:59 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > Hello,
+> > 
+> > As seen in bug this bug:
+> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5213
+> > 
+> > Marcom and Artwork teams (and maybe other teams later) need to have a
+> > storage space to upload temporary files, to share work in progress.
+> > 
+> > To do that, I think a simple solution would be to use WebDAV :
+> >  - we setup webdav with ssl, and allow upload from users from artwork
+> >    ldap group
+> >  - we setup apache to distribute files from this directory, as
+> >    http://tmp.mageia.org/artwork (disabling execution of any script)
+> > 
+> > What do you think ?
+> > 
+> > Other options that I see are :
+> >  - using an ftp server instead of webdav to upload the files. However
+> >    the connection is not encrypted with ftp.
+> >  - using scp/sftp, but this require to have posix accounts for all users
+> 
+> Didn't we set up sparkleshare for that ?
+
+Yes, we initially looked at sparkleshare for this. However, sparkleshare
+seems to be nothing more than git, with something to commit
+automatically when a file is added/modified in the sparkleshare
+directory, but :
+ - it seems no history is needed in our case as it will be used only to
+   share work in progress
+ - they want this to be accessible by http to give links on the mailing
+   list
+
+