hi guys,

busy doing a small project with a centos7 server and virtualbox.
currently i have a login to the physical server called sninja

i have three partitions created for each of my virtual machines
sninja owns the directories for each vm...and root is the primary group...now lets say i wanted to have other users perform functions on my vm's ..ssh in,rsync data into the vm etc...

whats the best way to address security and user accounts etc?

what i was thinking:

create a group called Myusers1,then assign the users to that group and then make the group the primary group of the accessed directories etc

is this the right way to go about it? any ideas or help really appreciated...

Just to be clear, are you talking about having these users have physical access to the host machine and then accessing the VMs from it, or having networked access to the VMs?

It would help to know a little more about what your are contemplating doing and what the surrounding computing environment is like. For example, if you are using bridged networking for the VMs and there is a LAN, these users can have direct network access to the VMs without needing physical access to the host machine. You can then control their access to the VMs as you would any remote user's access to any computer. (If this is a feasible alternative, it would be my first choice, as it eliminates their needing access to the host machine.)

i like it Frankbell that sounds perfect!!! its pretty standalone...my own centos7 server running virtualbox...i have a vm of:
centos7 - plan to use as general functional server website,email,ftp,media streaming etc etc
debian wheezy - more just to learn about debian,maybe run a minecraft server for a laugh and similar things
slackware 14.1 - want to use it for rsync backups from various windows based servers (mostly 2008 r2) and of course learn about this amazing distro!!!

i would like to connect to the physical server and 3 vm's via ssh
remote isnt a problem,i can use teamviewer (though i suspect its prob frowned upon in this community because of the amazing tools built into linux that can accomplish this.) and then theres also vnc which im sure a lot of people are still using...???

from the cygwin on my server i have a different user account,so im wondering how i can get that working with rsync to my slackware vm...cause im sure i need write access to the hard drive etc etc
and i dont know the implication of user accounts over ssh etc

again...it doesnt matter if the remote computers cant access the server,even though im the only one who will be accessing it im sure its good practice to setup a system like this...

at a later date (when i have got through a good amount of my RHCSA) i plan to also setup chef and start playing with that...though i have no idea how well its suited to a virtual environment) maybe i will do the virtual lessons first on the web site...looks good.

anyways,if you could add anything i could/should be doing/learning regarding this little experiment, please dont hesitate to post it here...anybody.

how would you get users and groups from one computer to take permissions on another via ssh?