Topic: Some 5.5 Remote Access Q's

[Jane]

1. How can (non-Admin) Users access the shell remotely? (ie via a LAN workstation)

 2. How can Admin access a shell remotely? (both via a LAN w'station & via Internet)

 3. If either involves Secure Shell, how to setup the workstation side of the conn'n?

 Step-by-Step sequence would be most helpful, thanks!

[chris meredith]

You should take a look around the contributed HOWTOS.  

http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi

There are some on SSH access, and even on using Putty under Windows.

For non admin users you will also need to edit your passwd file to give them a shell.  Search around, they are a few threads on doing what you want.

[Ron de Boer]

Jane,

Do a search on the forum's on 'chsh' making sure you search on all dates and you will find several answers to these questions.

Regards

Ron

[Jason Evans]

Jane, To access your SME box from a remote location you must first enable the remote access features from server-manager, allowing public access to SSH. This will allow Internet users to access your server as well as LAN users.
By default only root and admin can login to the server. To change this and allow regular users to access it you must change the user shell. The command is chsh -s /bin/bash username. Do that for each user. Now the user will be
given access to a bash shell on the server. If your users are logging in from Linux machines they can use the ssh client on there workstations ssh -lusername servername and then login. If your using Windowz machines you can get a great sshclient from www.ssh.com. Download the Win32client and install
it on the workstations. You will see the Interface is easy to use all you have to do is enter the servername username and password.


Hope that helps. Jason