08-31-2016, 01:05 PM
LL, some thoughts over coffee.
1) Libreoffice uses rcp for sftp unless you choose otherwise, i/e by trying to open a server root permissioned text file with Libreoffice. If you are not prompted for authentication when you try, scp is not working. Are you prompted when you try?
2) OR, does the server prompt the client for authentication when the client attempts to access root files? That would be scp.
3) If you are not prompted you are using rcp which I don't think will allow you in these new "norootlogin" and long host naming days to edit root server files with a client even if your client and server root user and passwords are the same. Under rcp you can only copy the file from the server into the client, and rename it to edit it, and copy it back as a new file, going through the whole renaming convention on the server with the client logged off to save your new file back to its original name on the server.
4) It is also possible that the client and the server are mismatched, one scp, one rcp. 3.0 client and 2.8 server i/e. this is not a bug per se, just new and old ways in the kernels of doing things clashing. I'm not sure, but I believe 2.8 pre-dates the system wide "norootlogin" Debian policy and may not automatically default to scp when necessary.
5) I still have yet to get the Ubuntu build of x11vnc to work properly as an LL v-server, so I could just be wrong here. The Debian build works perfectly for me in Debian. Good Luck.
TC
1) Libreoffice uses rcp for sftp unless you choose otherwise, i/e by trying to open a server root permissioned text file with Libreoffice. If you are not prompted for authentication when you try, scp is not working. Are you prompted when you try?
2) OR, does the server prompt the client for authentication when the client attempts to access root files? That would be scp.
3) If you are not prompted you are using rcp which I don't think will allow you in these new "norootlogin" and long host naming days to edit root server files with a client even if your client and server root user and passwords are the same. Under rcp you can only copy the file from the server into the client, and rename it to edit it, and copy it back as a new file, going through the whole renaming convention on the server with the client logged off to save your new file back to its original name on the server.
4) It is also possible that the client and the server are mismatched, one scp, one rcp. 3.0 client and 2.8 server i/e. this is not a bug per se, just new and old ways in the kernels of doing things clashing. I'm not sure, but I believe 2.8 pre-dates the system wide "norootlogin" Debian policy and may not automatically default to scp when necessary.
5) I still have yet to get the Ubuntu build of x11vnc to work properly as an LL v-server, so I could just be wrong here. The Debian build works perfectly for me in Debian. Good Luck.
TC
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