setting up/ giving out shell accounts

skeletal29 · 08-17-2002, 02:13 AM

Hi,

I would like to provide people with shell accounts but i need help.

I need documentation or software or anything that would guide me on how to do this. well i know how to make accounts and let people connect to my server but i want to put restrictions and like software for managing users and stuff so i dont get hacked and people pay up when they have to etc.....

The way these big boys are doing it. I would not mind paying for the hardware part of it... But i need to learn how to configure it.

lynch · 08-17-2002, 05:14 AM

Right off the top of my head,perhaps you can make changes in the etc/skel directory to have what you want set up by default for new users.There may be a better answer to this,but the smart folks are still sleeping

lynch

estel · 08-25-2002, 02:36 AM

Why exactly do you want to hand out shell accounts, and what do you want people to be able to do/not do (e.g. "I want to let people have email accounts", or "I want to host people's webpages")? A quick dig through ldp gives:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-...WTO/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html

Also http://dc.qut.edu.au/usr/share/doc/LDP/sag/ (my sys admin lecturer is always telling me to read this.) Section 11 looks relevant.