I am trying to create a new secondary user that has access to SFTP files and SSH access to a specific directory.
I have the SFTP work, but when I try to login via SSH, I get the following error: Write failed: Broken pipe
The root user uses a public/private key, but I want the secondary user to use a password.
Here is what I have so far:
useradd test
passwd test
usermod -G www-data test
usermod -d /usr/share/nginx/html test
chown test:www-data /usr/share/nginx/html
As for additions to my sshd_config:
AllowUsers test
Match User test
ChrootDirectory /usr/share/nginx/html
PasswordAuthentication yes
X11Forwarding no
AllowTcpForwarding no
ForceCommand internal-sftp
All I have left todo is to get the test user to be able access the CLI in their home directory to run composer and artisan commands.
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