Re: [vox] SSH Login

["karthikeyan" <karthikeyan@aspiresys.coMAPSm>]

Hi,

  Thanks for your kind reply.  I m sure users created through

  $ useradd <username>

  are not able to do an ssh except for root.

  Oh you suggest me not to log in as root but how do I create another user
who has

  + equivalent privileges as root i.e [karthik] and
  + one more user who has less power than  [karthik] but just enough to
install small small modules.

  My friend is running an hosting business and he has some 100 users but
they cant do ssh login for sure and those user were created through these
simple commands only.

 $ useradd <username>
 $ passwd <username>
 $ chown -R <username> <user home directory>
 $ chgrp -R <username> <user home directory>
 $ chmod 755 <user home directory>

  Any comments on this please

karthikeyan.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Micah Cowan" <micah@cowan.name>
To: <vox@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [vox] SSH Login


>
> Nobody, not even you, should be logging in as root unless you have a
> very good reason to. Most of the time, you should access your site using
> a less privileged account, and su or sudo to root as necessary.
>
> If your SSH server is set up to allow password-based access (quite
> common, and  in the default configuration I believe), your friend should
> be able to login via ssh using his/her username and password, after
> you've created them with useradd and passwd. Otherwise, generate his/her
> keypair with ssh-keygen according to the SSH documentation, and hand
> your friend the secret key when you see him/her next.
>
> HTH,
> Micah
>
> On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 12:12  AM, karthikeyan wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I m new to this admin stuff. I have an SSH root login access to my
> > friends server at florida. My question would be how to create a login
> > less
> > powerfull then [root] so that i can share with a person who is trying to
> > build a Control Panel for our Hosting Site. I know how to create user
> > using
> > [useradd <user name>].
> >
> > Environment : Redhat 7.3
> >
> > Looking forward for earliest response.
> >
> > karthikeyan.
>
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