john.parnefjord.se Reflections & findings

For production systems it's often best to deploy code automatically from a source code versioning system, like Subversion or CVS, using Ant, Nant or whatever. But sometimes it's handy for a group of users to be able to upload files straight to a server from their own machines. This story is about how one can setup the appropriate permissions for a team who wants to upload files to an Ubuntu/Debian server using SFTP. This is tested on Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS and using WinSCP as SFTP-client from a Windows XP.