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Access Notes

Jason Kiesling edited this page Jun 20, 2019 · 8 revisions

The following persons have access to the MYR virtual machine.

For security reasons, you cannot SSH directly to the app account. Please use your own account and then use su app to switch.

Name Contact Email Username SSH Access Sudo Access Knows 'app' password
Jason Kiesling jason@learnmyr.org jasondkiesling Yes Yes Yes
Elena Izotova elena@learnmyr.org eizotova Yes No Yes
App N/A app No No N/A

Adding a new user

  • Connect to the UML VPN or be connected to the on-campus network.
    • Note: The student wireless is not on-campus. Only the VPN and certain wired connections can connect to the server via SSH.
  • SSH into the MYR server.
  • Run the command sudo adduser [USERNAME] by replacing [USERNAME] with the new user's username.
    • Follow the prompts to set the password and user information.
  • If the user requires sudo access run the command sudo adduser [USERNAME] sudo.
    • Users only need sudo access to update Ubuntu for the most part. Sudo should be kept restricted to only those who require sudo access.
  • If the user requires SSH access (they do, otherwise they don't need an account) run sudo adduser [USERNAME] sshlogin.
  • Give the user their username and password. Ideally do not send their username and password using the same method.
    • If the user will be doing updates of MYR or the MYR backend, give them the app password as well.
  • Update this document.