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ssh as admin
Ultra6 with RAIDiator 4.2.19. I've installed "enableSSH" and the port is open. Using putty from Windows7 gets me the login prompt, but using admin/password closes the ssh window immediately. If I use...
You can't login as anyone but root, since noone but root has a valid shell set.
If you login as admin you are presented a shell consisting of a boolean false value, which is pretty much useless and will cause your ssh client to close the session immediately.
You could change that to allow other users ssh access.
This command allows shell access to the user with the name: USERNAME with the same password as it was set up using frontview.
This should however only be done if you are sure that you need shell access for that user. You can do many many bad things with shell access.
If you login as admin you are presented a shell consisting of a boolean false value, which is pretty much useless and will cause your ssh client to close the session immediately.
You could change that to allow other users ssh access.
This command allows shell access to the user with the name: USERNAME with the same password as it was set up using frontview.
usermod -s/bin/bash USERNAME
This should however only be done if you are sure that you need shell access for that user. You can do many many bad things with shell access.
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