[ale] service user vs no login user and ssh into it

[James Sumners]

Whoah! That's the wrong thing to do. Root shouldn't be allowed to SSH in
_ever_.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 July 2017 11:57:24 Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > Friends:
> >
> > I want to create a user called myansible.
> >
> > This user will have sudo rights (have to enter password)
> >
> > However I want to set it up as a NO-LOGIN user.  Its only purpose is to
> run
> > deployments and thats it.
> >
> > The question is if it cannot login how can I put the .ssh/authorized_keys
> > so I can run stuff over ssh (Read ansible) ?
>
> Take a gander at
>
> PermitRootLogin without-password
>
> If it works for root, it'll probably work if you set up a user in
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config too.
>
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