Guest chrisaltman Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 So. I got an SSH server kind of going. The motd file is edited with what I want, and I generated a public key. What I would ideally like to do is have a menu with hotkeys for separate folders that I would host, for download and upload. Also, I would like to find out where the user list is, and how to have people register and/or manually add usernames and passwords to log in with. This is a huge question, and I know I'm a huge newbie, but any help would definitely be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Im not sure what you mean ... sorry. I think you mean you want to use a secure ftp through ssh ... ?? You basically just want some areas for upload/download which are secured? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 chrisaltman, as I understood your needs, this kind of menu is available at my provider's ssh access. The footnote line says "welcome to pdmenu". If you google for this term, you'll find some references, in particular, pdmenu itself is available for download. It also exists as a mandriva package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 ssh is basically allowing remote shell access to your machine, to add extra accounts you need to create them a new account on the server. You can do that via mcc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chesneysteve Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Hi SSH can do all of things you want either using it's own authentication or by handing off to PAM or the hosts' built in authentication. However all this flexibility does make it a big subject (as you expected). I would reccommend an excellent book on the subject - "SSH The Secure Shell - The definitive guide" from O-Reilly publications IBSN 0-596-00011-1. This book literally took me from zero to hero on ssh. Best Regards Steve Chesney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chrisaltman Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I am using mandrake- the PDmenu will not help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Here's one of the best ssh tutorials I've seen on the net: http://www.suso.org/docs/shell/ssh.sdf It's a good starting point and may point you in the right direction. However, from your description it sounds like you would be better off setting up an sftp server rather than try to shoehorn ssh into doing a job it really wasn't designed to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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