Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by dahfizz on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:39PM (#20351303)

This could be done simply by creating a new user with your super long password. Lock down ssh so you can only log in as this user, and let them `sudo su` into your normal working user.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by eridius on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:05AM (#20351421)

I mean, yeah, but I don't want to do that. Partially because I don't want the friction, and partially because that won't work with any other tools that tunnel over ssh (e.g. sftp).

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by eitland on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:57AM (#20352228)

There will be friction, but sftp and port tunneling - which are my most used fwatures besides plain ssh - should be possible?

I mean either you sftp to a shared folder that can be accessed from your regular user as well or you use a staging area with a cron job (or you load/unload the staging area manually.)

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by eridius on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:19AM (#20352345)

If I'm sftp'ing to my server it's because I want to access my files. Not a special shared folder that I then have to separately ssh in, su to the real user, and move into place.

I'm not deploying a website so a staging area isn't applicable. This is just a VPS that I use for various purposes.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by dahfizz on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:36PM (#20355903)

If your ssh user has the right priveleges, you can read and write your real users files as the ssh user just fine. I do get that this isn't ideal though.

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