Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

Om Prakash oomprakash at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 18:04:16 UTC 2016


We are not doing it with git?
I understand we would be using markdown, just wanted to clarify if we are intending to use git.

> On 19-Mar-2016, at 6:16 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2016.03.18 15:37 Brendan Perrine wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:10:44 +0000 Serge Hallyn wrote:
> 
>>> in the github markdown format.  I recall there was some discussion on this
> 
>> I read through the section on remote access
> 
> Did you mean Chapter 6 - Remote Administration ?
> 
>> and and file servers I don't know much about the ftp server
>> but the server guide goes into very little detail about sftp
>> which is included in open-ssh server by default and works quite
>> well the only thing I really could not document on this would be
>> with external clients running on systems that are not linux.
>> However filezilla as a client should support sftp as well.
>> The question is where would I put this as it part of
>> remote access
> 
> Did you mean Chapter 6 - Remote Administration ?
> 
>> because it uses ssh but also allows file transfer
>> although not quite the best for say public file downloads
>> like how some places I still see ftp servers online to say download
>> a manual with product information on my motherboard.
> 
> I would put in Chapter 14 - File Servers as section 2, bumping the others
> down. It could refer to Chapter 6 - Section 1 - OpenSSH Server.
> 
> And then the nonexistent destination reference(s) in Chapter 14 - Section 1
> FTP Server (one of two copied below):
> 
> "If you are looking to transfer files securely see SFTP in the
> section on OpenSSH-Server."
> 
> could be changed to point to an actual useful reference.
> 
> If you want to proceed please edit the wiki [1] and add the new section,
> put your name on it and set it to "in progress". Or I'll do it if you want.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/UbuntuServerGuide
> 
> 
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