[wplug] scp, ssh, ftp login only root

[Scott Kiesling]

Well, there's only the one user account on this here laptop, and I did
it a while ago, but I think I used 'useradd'. Maybe knowing the best way
would be educational...
SFK

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:49, abe wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:27:58PM -0500, Scott Kiesling wrote:
> > And the answer is, from Gentoo forums
> > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34024):
> > 
> >     It seems that the account I was trying to log in with did not have a
> >     shell listed in /etc/passwd. I just added a ":/bin/bash" at the end
> >     of the user's entry, and I was good to go! Thanks! 
> >     
> > I did the same, and could ssh from localhost. Now to see if it works
> > from the other side of the Cathedral...yep, ssh and scp work fine.
> 
> how are you adding user accounts?
> 
> 
> abe
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