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monsoon's picture

Hi,

I am attempting to get Command line credentials of all of my clients who have created their websites on my BOA hosting system create on linode.com servers.

Reading various sources I have come across the following information from Omega8.cc . I am unable to find directory and files mentioned in the information where my Clients' credentials are located. Please read the following and provide me the path of the file as /users/ directory is found any where.. (sounds stupid.. :) plz. help.)

"You can easily grant Limited Shell and FTPS access for developers, simply by creating Clients in the Aegir control panel and define them as Owners of one or more sites (by editing sites nodes). Their access will be limited to only sites they can manage, but only if you will send them their SSH/FTPS access credentials, which are independent of their Aegir control panel credentials and stored in the ~/users/ directory in your main account. You will find there files with passwords for every Client – but only with at least one site attached already. For example ~/users/o1.foo file means that this Client’s username for SSH and FTPS access is o1.foo while his password is stored in this file. This means that SSH/FTPS access is not granted automatically, but you can decide who should receive it. How to change any extra user’s password? Simply delete his ~/users/o1.foo file and wait up to 5 minutes – the system will re-create his account with new password. And how to delete the user completely? Simply delete this user Client account and node in the Aegir control panel and allow the system to delete also his SSH/FTPS access in the next 5 minutes. Some important things to remember:"

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nitin.sareen.mca's picture

First create the user from Aegir front end.
Next attach the new user to the site.
Next browse to o1.ftp home directory. There you'll find the users folder created now.

Attach new user to the site???

monsoon's picture

Hi nitin.sareen.mca,

Thanks for reply.
Yes, I have created new users on Aegir front end using link: Add site and client
and Aegir system has successfully created the aegir user and its website.

Sorry, I am unable to understand How to attach a user to the website. Which I think is automatically done while creating Client and his website using "Add site and client".

Now where to locate the folder you have mentioned that contains client ftp details? can you plz provide a concise path?

I am using Ubuntu.

Will this folder be found in "Static" folder where custom platforms are placed?

Any help highly appreciated.

Regards,

@monsoon

omega8cc's picture

It seems that you should really read the how-to again ;) https://omega8.cc/node/226

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