On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:42:51AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > I just discovered a severe bug in the sftp protocol support of nautilus: > > I tried to mount a remote folder via SFTP/SSH by using a syntax similar > to the following: > > 'sftp://<host>/path/to/directory'. Instead of displaying > '/path/to/directory' on the remote host, nautilus kept giving warnings > that it doesn't know what to do with file 'directory' and moved to the > home directory on the remote host. > > I tried it with different syntax (colon between host and path, 'user@' > in front of host, using 'ssh://' instead of 'sftp://') and I tried both > using the 'Andere Orte' (something like 'different locations' in > english) and the address bar (<Ctrl>+<l>). One time nautilus even > crashed (the Files window got closed). > > After some time, I went back to the remote console SSH session and was > shocked to realize that the whole directory '/path/to/directory' was > removed on the remote host. Luckily I had backups. > > I don't have time to do further debugging right now as I'm quite busy, > but I will do further debugging and try to find a clear reproducer in > the following days.
Please do try to find a way to reproduce this. I suspect that nautilus' warning messages may be caused by the path being missing or a filesystem problem, instead of nautilus deleting the path. I've tried opening paths in nautilus several ways and I can't find any problem with it.
