[freeside] adduser over SSH

ivan ivan at 420.am
Fri Jun 8 15:58:38 PDT 2001


Sounds like something's different about your environment.  See the
ENVIRONMENT section of the ssh manpage.  Perhaps the $HOME
environment variable isn't set.  Since you didn't report the version of
your OS, etc., as requested when you signed up for the list, I'm unable to
speculate further.

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:38:22PM -0700, rdailey at colusanet.com wrote:
> I have.  And it works just fine. Entering the command as the freeside user, 
> it goes through just fine.  But whenever the script tries to do it, I get 
> and entry in the messages log on my shellmachine:
> 
> sshd[1718]: Did not receive identification string from X.X.X.X
> 
> Where X.X.X.X is the IP of my freeside machine.
> 
> >On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:16:04PM -0700, rdailey at colusanet.com wrote:
> > > Herm.  In svc_acct.pm, the following command is run in order to add 
> > someone
> > > remotely:
> > >
> > > ssh("root\@$shellmachine", eval qq("$useradd") );
> > >
> > > Which equates to the freeside user trying to run something like:
> > >
> > > ssh root@[shellmachine] useradd [options]
> > >
> > > but the freeside user cannot do that; at least not unattended.
> >
> >See the "Unattended remote login" section of htdocs/docs/export.html
> >
> >--
> >meow
> >_ivan
> 
> 
> Rick Dailey
> ColusaNET
> <mailto:%2F%2Frdailey at colusanet.com>rdailey at colusanet.com
> 

-- 
meow
_ivan



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