Add SFTP-only backend
Bug #387218 reported by
Cristian Klein
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Duplicity |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As of v0.6.0 duplicity does not have a pure SFTP backend, i.e. a backend that uses *only* the SFTP command to communicate with the backup host. The existing backends (SSH / SCP) use SFTP but also SCP. Using only SFTP is desired, because one may create a restricted shell in which SFTP can be run without shell (PTY) access. This is not possible with SCP.
The patch below addresses this issue, by adding a "sftp://" scheme. The most important file (backends/
Changed in duplicity: | |
milestone: | none → 0.6.1 |
Changed in duplicity: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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I fixed one problem with arguments to get and patched duplicity to be sftp only. Clean solution.