[colug-432] Creating SSH for New User

[Zach Villers]

On the remote box, I would su - new user, ssh-keygen -t dsa (or rsa), ssh
copy-id me at myhomebox. I think you are using root's key instead of the new
users' key?

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at postpro.net>
wrote:

>  My new user (me) can't log on via SSH. Can someone look this over and
> tell me what super basic thing I've done wrong?
>
> What I did:
>
> *As root*:
>
> Add user "name"
>      /usr/sbin/adduser name
> Create password
>      passwd name
>           [created the password]
> Give root permissions
>      sudo nano /etc/sudoers
>           [added the line name ALL=(All) ALL
> Re-enabled password authentication in sshd_config and restarted sshd
>
> *As the new user "name"*:
>
> made directory
>      mkdir ./ssh
> created file and added public key to file authorized keys
>      sudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>           [entered the public key (which I call a "lock")]
> updated permissions "just in case"
>      chmod 700 ~/.ssh
>      chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> tried to login with the private key
>      Result: server refused the key.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
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