"This Account Is Currently Not Available" Error When Trying to Ssh
An Error Occurs When I Try to Make Ssh Connection: $ Ssh -P 22 Www-Data@X. X. X. X This Account Is Currently Not Available 1 3 Answers While I Agree with the...
An error occurs when I try to make SSH connection:
$ ssh -p 22 www-data@x.x.x.x
This account is currently not available
3 Answers
While I agree with the others that allowing login through SSH through the www-data user is generally a bad idea, once you've logged in with a normal user it may be useful to run multiple commands concurrently with the permissions set of the www-data user. In that case, one can run
sudo su -l www-data -s /bin/bash
and you will be able to access your files as the www-data user.
You're getting the This account is currently not available. error because the shell for the user www-data is set to /usr/sbin/nologin, and it's set for a very good reason. You should not log in as www-data, it's a special user/group used by the web server, not intended for regular shell use.
EDIT: It is an especially bad idea to give sudo rights to www-data. If Apache was intended to run with root permissions, it wouldn't have it's own group. By doing this, you are creating huge security holes. You have been warned.
The first question I would have to ask is, what are you trying to accomplish by doing this?
kraxor is 100% correct you should never be able to ssh into your server using your Apache/Nginx user. Doing so invites every hacker with half a brain cell into your server.
If you need to run a script or some program as that user you could try sudo -u www-data yourscript or you could temporally chown on the file to a user with login privileges. It's just a vary bad idea to allow this account that kind of access.
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