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	SubCore	2009-12-30 , 17:28
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Originally Posted by plutonium239

What about creating a ssh user account? Do I have to? If yes, how?

you don't have to, personally i use root for this and then execute "su user" if i don't need root privileges. the openssh installer should ask you for a root password to set, which you then have to use when connecting.

but you can add a dedicated user if you want:

Code:

sudo gainroot
useradd user_for_ssh
passwd user_for_ssh

to verify that it worked, you can do "grep user_for_ssh /etc/passwd" - you should get exactly one line, and the last column should be "/bin/sh", so that your newly created user really does get a shell (command prompt) when connecting via ssh.

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