Creating SSH Users

[Khue]

I would like to restrict PermitRootLogin in the SSHD config. Therefore I need to create some new users who have access to SSH into some individual ESX 4 boxes. How can I go about accomplishing this? Is it as straight forward as just doing a useradd command from the shell? Thanks!

[weinstein5]

Yes it is that straightforward - you can also add users through the vSphere client when connected directly to the ESX host -

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[Khue]

Thanks much. I was just making sure that there wasn't anything else that had to be done.

[msemon1]

If you restrict SSH access for root, which you should, then useradd should be fine for new users. To get admin privileges they can can use Sudo or Su - for root access.

Mike

[Khue]

Yeah thats generally best practice for most Linux boxes. When I upgraded from 3.5 to 4.0, it appears like I either left off the option to add new users or I was never prompted. I am in the process of locking down most of these servers right now. This is the newest list item I am working on. Thanks for the input.