[ale] service user vs no login user and ssh into it

[Joey Kelly]

On Tuesday 25 July 2017 11:57:24 Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends:
> 
> I want to create a user called myansible.
> 
> This user will have sudo rights (have to enter password)
> 
> However I want to set it up as a NO-LOGIN user.  Its only purpose is to run
> deployments and thats it.
> 
> The question is if it cannot login how can I put the .ssh/authorized_keys
> so I can run stuff over ssh (Read ansible) ?

Take a gander at

PermitRootLogin without-password

If it works for root, it'll probably work if you set up a user in 
/etc/ssh/sshd_config too.

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Joey Kelly
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