Re: [cobalt-users] ssh and virtual sites.

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Jens Kristian Søgaard <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> "Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > > I'm logged in as root and I su to another user from a virtual site and I
>
> > > ************************* Access Denied *************************
> > > *                                                               *
> > > * Sorry, you do not have telnet/shell access to this Cobalt     *
> > > * server.                                                       *
> > > *                                                               *
> > > *****************************************************************
>
> > This has nothing to do with SSH.  You'd have the same problem using telnet.
You
> > need to grant the user telnet access through the GUI if you want to be able
to
> > login or su that user from either telnet or ssh.  SSH is available to your
>
> That's not completely right. You do _not_ need to grant the user
> telnet access from the GUI.

My point was really that the telnet and ssh are treated the same by the GUI
since that option in the GUI controls all shell access.  Since ssh is not
pre-installed by Cobalt it makes sense that they refer to it as telnet access
instead of shell access or telnet/ssh access (or some other protocol), but that
point could be lost on a new user.

> As you are the root user (when su'ed), you have the access to override
> the shell specified in /etc/passwd. You do it this way:
>
>         su -m username
>
> You can also use '-s' and specify the shell you want.

Thank you, Jens.  I was unaware of the flags for su b/c I've never read the
manual.  I'm sure this will come in handy for me and probably will for the
original poster.

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}