Hi, Thomas Schmitt: > Hi, > > Stephan Beck wrote: >> How can you access this new account to generate an ssh key pair there? > [sorry for trimming]
> Greg Wooledge wrote: >> sudo -u test bash > > Does not work for me (at least not out of the box): > > $ sudo -u test_user bash > [sudo] password for thomas: > Sorry, user thomas is not allowed to execute '/bin/bash' as test_user on > [...] > $ > Yes, I was running adduser from the root console, as Greg assumed. So, I saw/see no reason running sudo from the root console. In fact, I put a # directly preceeding the generic SUDO (ALL) ALL etc. entry in /etc/sudoers, granting determined rights only to specific users. (I don't know if this affects sudo's overall behaviour). At least, it's more work having to insert additional rights in /etc/sudoers for "test" (in order to do a sudo), if I just want to ssh-keygen, ssh-copy-id and then deactivate password authentication in sshd_config once again (to go for pubkey auth). Thanks for your additional comments. Stephan
