Transition Technology: Ticket #534: Add accounts for Ben

cc, hours, status, totalhours changed; resolution set

chris — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:27:27 GMT

cc benj added
hours changed from 0.0 to 0.5
status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed
totalhours changed from 0.0 to 0.5

Trac

Following the docs on wiki:TracUserAdmin which is linked from the main Trac info page, wiki:TransitionTrac this was done on wiki:PenguinServer, we already have a username ben so I used benj, hope that is OK:

sudo -i
su-trac
export NEWTRACUSER=benj
trac-admin /web/tech.transitionnetwork.org/trac permission add $NEWTRACUSER admin
htpasswd /web/tech.transitionnetwork.org/.htpasswd $NEWTRACUSER

Since the server doesn't have apache installed there was no htpasswd, so it was copied from another machine to /web/tech.transitionnetwork.org/bin/.

Then the two final steps documented at wiki:TracUserAdmin#AddanewTracuser were followed and the documentation was updated.

Mediawiki

An account was created following the instructions on the wiki, https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/TransitionWiki:About#Account_Creation

Pwiki

An account was created following the documentation on the wiki:PiwikServer#Addingasite page and Ben was given view access to all the sites.

milestone set

chris — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:34:46 GMT

milestone set to Maintenance

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chris — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:47:40 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.25
totalhours changed from 0.5 to 0.75

I have added Ben's ssh key to /home/tn.ftp/.ssh/authorized_keys and I also needed to add the lshellg group to this line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

AllowGroups sudo lshellg

And restart ssh.

chris — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:49:13 GMT

I also had to reset the tn.ftp password -- if anyone needs the new one please let me know.

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chris — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:19:06 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.05
totalhours changed from 0.75 to 0.8

I have sent the reset tn.ftp password to Ben.

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chris — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:36:28 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.15
totalhours changed from 0.8 to 0.95
type changed from defect to maintenance

I have had some email correspondence with Ben trying to get ssh keys working for him, I think he might have been getting the public key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub confused with the private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa in the cyberduck settings?

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chris — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:32:04 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.05
totalhours changed from 0.95 to 1.0

The ssh client, in this case cyberduck, needs to know where the private key is.

The public key resides on the server, the server is all set up as it has been confirned to work on the command line.

For help with configuring cyberduck see:

http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/howto/sftp

For a overview of public key cryptography see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography