After a long battle with technology, keith smith wrote:
> I personally run Fedora and the webservers I work on run CentOS or RHEL.
> I am looking for a reference that will list the things I might need to know
> to manage a (web) server from the command line. Is there such a thing or
> is it a crazy question?
Well, the Apache docs, of course :-) . It depends a lot on what you're
running besides the web server (PHP, Tomcat, MySQL, whatever) and what your
users want.
> Today I ran into a situation where it appeared a directory was password
> protected by a .htaccess file. I could not find it or figure out what was
> going on until the system administrator told me about the .htadmin file one
> directory below the document root. So I learned about htpasswd.
That's one of the things that's in the Apache docs. Get familiar with those;
it'll pay off.
> I've configured sudo users however I do not know how to restrict SSH access
> to only the users I want to be able to shell in.
If you have users who only need FTP access, you generally set those users'
shells to something like /etc/ftponly (which just echoes a banner and exits,
which also has to be in /etc/shells ) in /etc/passwd . At least that's how
I've seen it done. However, if you want to use SFTP/SCP, I think you may
have to have an actual shell. Previously, we chrooted all ssh/scp users who
were just uploading/downloading files, but IIRC ssh doesn't come with chroot
support by default. And chrooting people is a bit of a pain.
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