No more right click terminal

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Fri Jul 15 22:35:48 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:33 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Or:
> 
> - Use a web page editing tool which knows how to invoke ssh or ftp or
>   webdav or whatever?

Right... bring huge file, alter locally, upload it again.

> 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).

Same as above.

> > 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).

Easy to say, as the saying goes. Why should it ever be a "fix" on SSH?
Why is that a supposed function? Makes no sense. A remote system might
not even have acls and selinux attributes usually require relabelling...

> > 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.

Sorry, I have to call for the BS flag.

Rui

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