Debian server issue + questions.

[albinootje]

The only account i can log into with ssh so far is the administrator account and through that i can root for maintinence.

So scponly is that way to go for that? ill look into it now.

Scponly is a way to give users only access to files via ssh.

Here's a short howto :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=451510

Read the "Normal SFTP" section, and ignore the "Chroot/Jail SFTP" section.

[uberlube]

Also i hit a snag, i rebooted and the new DG didnt take for some reason. Here is what my interfaces looks like now after i added in that command u told me about, see anything wrong?

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.102
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1

[albinootje]

Here is what my interfaces looks like now after i added in that command u told me about, see anything wrong?

        gateway 192.168.0.1

You made a typo it looks like, make that 1.1 instead of 0.1 in the end, and try again

[uberlube]

lol k 1 sec

[uberlube]

While im rebooting, i installed scponly and it looks pretty straightforward. So again, if im understanding correctly, iif i want anyone to be able to access my server they must have a physical user profile made on that box? and then i just use scponly on their username? Also is ISP config able to do any of this kind of management for me?


EDIT: yup i can ping google.com after reboot

[albinootje]

While im rebooting, i installed scponly and it looks pretty straightforward. So again, if im understanding correctly, iif i want anyone to be able to access my server they must have a physical user profile made on that box? and then i just use scponly on their username?

Please read the article about scponly that I mentioned in one of the previous comments. That article has instructions for that.

Also is ISP config able to do any of this kind of management for me?

According to the ISPconfig website frontpage.. no.
Maybe you'd like to try webmin instead of ISPconfig : http://www.webmin.com

EDIT: yup i can ping google.com after reboot

Good

[cariboo]

@uberlube

You don't have to reboot after making changes. Depending on the service you are configuring, just restart the service for example you are working on networking right now, so to restart networking at the prompt type:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

If you were editing apache config files:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

you can also just stop or start a service

[uberlube]

K ive got users made and working now, thnx alot! One more question though, can i run ISPconfig and webmin together or will they interfere with one another?

[uberlube]

@uberlube

You don't have to reboot after making changes. Depending on the service you are configuring, just restart the service for example you are working on networking right now, so to restart networking at the prompt type:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

If you were editing apache config files:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

you can also just stop or start a service

thnx for the tip

[uberlube]

great now mydns is down...

server1:/etc/init.d# mydns restart
mydns: Extraneous command-line arguments ignored
mydns[19933]: mydns 1.2.8.25 started Fri Jun 12 18:16:25 2009 (listening on 3 addresses)
^Cmydns[19933]: interrupted
mydns[19933]: server1.home.net up 2m9s (129s) 3 questions (0/s) NOERROR=2 SERVFAIL=0 NXDOMAIN=0 NOTIMP=0 REFUSED=0 
mydns[19934]: interrupted
mydns[19934]: server1.home.net up 2m9s (129s) 9 questions (0/s) NOERROR=2 SERVFAIL=0 NXDOMAIN=0 NOTIMP=0 REFUSED=0 (33% TCP, 3 queries