Topic: SSH Login

[Daniel Bahl]

When i create a useraccount and try to login i get following, how do i enable Standard user login ??

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Mitel Networks SME Server
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Standard user login services have been disabled.


Type "end" and press ENTER to terminate this connection:


And can i set the "start"dir of a user ??

Thanks
daniel bahl jensen

[P Kidd]

just a point in the direction of: search forums or man page on chsh; the start dir can be set in the shell config files, for bash check its man page etc etc

[Tomas]

As far as I remember, just edit the /etc/passwd file
Find the user you want and instead of /bin/false write /bin/bash, or whatever shell you prefer.

/Tomas

[Dan Brown]

NO!  DO NOT EDIT THE PASSWD FILE MANUALLY!  There's no need to, and it's easy to screw it up.  Use the chsh command instead, as suggested by P Kidd (and a search here on chsh will pull up lots more information).

[Daniel Bahl]

Hi i got the chsh to work - Thx to P Kidd

Thanks

But not the Startdir
can you please help me again with that

[Daniel Bahl]

i got it just made a alias like this

dex2k@enid:~$ alias changetome='cd /home/www'
dex2k@enid:~$ changetome

so now i works

But the user can se my /etc/ files and so on and so fourth

can i deny other ibays and config files for him ?

daniel

[Daniel van Raay]

Alternativly, try my e-smith-usershellaccess contrib from:
   ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/DanielvanRaay/RPMS/noarch/

This will setup a server-manager panel where you can turn on shell access for user accounts.

As for their starting folder, you could always try:
  echo "cd /path/to/start/folder/" > ~useraccount/.bash_profile

There isn't really an easy way to stop users from going elsewhere in the file-tree though.

Daniel van Raay

[Daniel Bahl]

Thanks for all youre answers

Can i not i deny access to /etc ?

daniel