SSH Access for SiteWorx accounts?

[sonicgroup]

Well, since the search won't let me search on SSH (too short- damned minimum chars MySQL :D ), I'll make a new thread.

I've got a customer who needs SSH access to his account. He prefers SCP to FTP (and I don't blame him), and he also has some fairly large SQL dumps he'd rather import from the command line.

I didn't see an option in NodeWorx or SiteWorx to enable SSH access so I initially tried to create an account for him. I set his home directory to the directory of his site (/home/sitename), but he has no permissions to do anything in there. I noticed that the home folder sitename was also the username and owner, so I tried setting a password for that user and logging in under that, but got an account not available message upon logging in.

How do I add SSH access for my customer? He'll need to have full read/write permissions for his site's home directory (only), as well as access to the MySQL commands, and basic *nix commands (ls, rm, mv, vi, etc.), but I'd like to restrict him specifically to his home directory (/home/sitename).

Thanks for any help.

[IWorx-Paul]

Hi Dave,

This is really pretty simple. First, determine the unix user that owns the files now.

Then, give the user a valid shell:
as root,
usermod -s /bin/bash <username>

Then, set a password for the user:
passwd <username>

Paul

[sonicgroup]

Excellent! Thanks for the help Paul. I never even realized that the user didn't have a shell associated with it. This fixed me up perfectly.

Thanks again!

[timryberg]

Excellent! Thanks for the help Paul. I never even realized that the user didn't have a shell associated with it. This fixed me up perfectly.

Thanks again!

They turn that off as a securyty precaution. Most SiteWorx users don't need shell access.

[sonicgroup]

They turn that off as a securyty precaution. Most SiteWorx users don't need shell access.

Aye, perfectly understandable, and I don't normally give out shell access, but this is a friend of mine, and he's knowledgable enough about Linux to be able to use it without problem (He and I are actually starting a site dedicated to some Linux stuff - this was the site that needed the SSH access).

[timryberg]

Aye, perfectly understandable, and I don't normally give out shell access, but this is a friend of mine, and he's knowledgable enough about Linux to be able to use it without problem (He and I are actually starting a site dedicated to some Linux stuff - this was the site that needed the SSH access).

Understandable.

[sonicgroup]

Well, that solution worked all well and good to give my user SSH access, but ever since I changed this, we are seeing 403 messages on everything in the html directory, even with the file permissions set to rwx rwx rwx. Any ideas?

[IWorx-Paul]

Check the permissions of all the directories from / up to the html folder. Make sure the executable bit is set on all the directories.

Paul

[sonicgroup]

Excellent! That did the trick. The domain directory directly above the html directory was only rwx rw- rw-.