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How to permit multiple users access to the same server/droplet?

February 12, 2016 1.8k views
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I am a new user and am not well versed in any of this stuff. I am creating a game in UE4 with multiple people housed on one server. I watched your tutorials on how to set up a new user/ssh keys etc. However after I did, none of my other teammates can access the server in the terminal. Was I not supposed to set up a ssh key? How can all of my teammates access the same droplet so that we can work on the same game and share information?

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  • gndo February 12, 2016

    How many ssh keys did you make and where did you place the public portion of the ssh key(s)?

  • rickydavid February 12, 2016

    I only made 1 key. I watched this DigitalOcean video to set everything up. Everything he did, I did. I'll rewatch the video to find where he place everything:

    How To Set Up Sudo and SSH Keys on Ubuntu 14.04
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuIYabZS3ow

  • gndo February 12, 2016

    @rickydavid - OK. Here's the checklist to check:

    1. The user's machine has the private portion of the ssh key
    2. The user's machine has a terminal program that is configured to find the private key
    3. The server has an account for the user
    4. The user account on the server has a directory like ~username/.ssh with read/write/exec permissions for the user only (all other permissions are off)
    5. There is a file ~username/.ssh/authorized_keys with read/write for the user only
    6. One of the lines in the authorized_keys file is the public portion of the ssh key that is associated with the private portion held on the user's machine
    7. The user's terminal program on the user's machine is configured to login using the server account name
  • rickydavid February 12, 2016

    I only created one public/private ssh key and left the default location (/Users/Blah/.ssh/id_rsa):

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seabrook2015 February 13, 2016

As long as you've assigned your droplet an IP address (on the console) they can get access with a userid and password, provided you've created them an account with useradd.
-- Dick S.

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