Hi,
I have been working successfully with my Alfresco installation on Genesis hosting. Now, I need to make some changes, which require file access and restart of Alfresco.
I am connecting successfully as admin through FTP (Filezilla), but am not able to upload files or change permissions to the folders.
Do you have any advice on how to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Ruedi
I'm not sure the capabilities
I'm not sure the capabilities of Filezilla, but you would need to use SFTP (secure FTP) or SSH. See the Shell/Console Access section of the wiki http://wiki.jumpbox.com/doc/runtime. Use SCP (secure copy) to upload files or a program that handles SFTP.
Be aware that changing permissions may make your application more vulnerable to attack.
David
Permissions in Alfresco JumpBox
The JumpBox Wiki contains tips on how to SSH to the JumpBox as the admin user:
http://wiki.jumpbox.com/doc/runtime
There is also some discussion of how to do things as root (with sudo). There is an Alfresco specific wiki page:
http://wiki.jumpbox.com/doc/app/alfresco
Proceed with caution. Anything you do with sudo or as root can cause huge problems. Snapshots might help along these lines.
Austin
Looks like it's a Jumpbox issue?
Hi,
Further status: I read the pages above (again) and instead of Filezilla am now using WinSCP. Both of these were recommended for SFTP.
Login using SFTP and the admin credentials runs smoothly without a hitch.
The permission of the admin though is not enough to add configuration files to the extension folder. Also cannot change the folder permission.
I can't think of anything else to do. It looks like the setup is faulty, if it creates an admin who cannot change file permissions within the installation.
It also doesn't look like I could do anything using the Vmware client. It looks like the only thing I can do with this application is starting and stopping it, but not modify any settings (outside of the settings that can be changed from within Alfresco). Since there are a large number of settings, which can only be changed outside of the application by modifying the XML files, this really limits the usefulness of the Jumpbox.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Ruedi
Looks like it's a Jumpbox issue?
If you SSH into the JumpBox as the admin user, ANY file on the JumpBox can be edited using the command:
File permissions can be a bit tricky to get exactly right, we have to weigh app functionality, with security and easy of use from the admin user's perspective. In general we try and make applications writable by the admin user but this doesn't always work out. I will look and see why this isn't the case for this application.
In the meantime, if you really need to edit over SFTP rather than shell based method shown above, you can always set the root users password to something safe, and connect as the root user.
Austin
Done
Thanks. I went with the last suggestion of using a root login for SFTP.
Just until I finish the proof of concept.
Regards,
Ruedi