id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
1356	SFTP and FTP: allow logging in with an arbitrary cap URI as root directory	davidsarah	davidsarah	"The SFTP and FTP frontends should allow logging in with username {{{uri}}}, and password an arbitrary cap URI.

Implementing this for SFTP can then be used to support a {{{tahoe mount}}} command (#1357), as suggested in ticket:1353#comment:3. For both SFTP and FTP, it is potentially useful to be able to log in with a root URI without having set up an account for it in the {{{ftp.accounts}}} file. (SFTP and FTP use the same code in [source:src/allmydata/frontends/auth.py] to handle logins, so it is simpler for them to behave the same.)

Note that you can already access an arbitrary cap URI via the {{{/uri/}}} directory, but that does not have nearly as nice usability properties, because you can't access aliases that way. (Allowing access to aliases would provide ambient authority and so is not capability-secure.)"	enhancement	assigned	major	1.12.0	code-frontend	1.8.2		sftp usability test-needed