SSH access is available

[Matt R.]

Dear All,

We have had a number of people comment on the lack of SSH access in our recent customer survey.

This post is to just re-iterate that SSH access is available on request; you simply need to log a helpdesk ticket requesting SSH access on your account and it will be granted. You do need to attach (or upload a link to) a copy of your passport or drivers license. This will be held in accordance to our privacy policy.

Matt

[Tony]

Yes, but last I heard, even with SSH we can't access Mysql?

[Matt R.]

It's jailed SSH access. We grant this in the interest of server security.

With the VPS products we're considering you get full root access though.

[Tom]

What is the difference between Jailed SSH and Normal SSH though?

[Matt R.]

Jailed restricts you to your directories, instead of read only access on a wider range of directories. It's more secure this way.

[Matt R.]

By the way... I disabled moderation of comments for this forum, so you can all freely reply now.

[tsmelser]

I almost have to have SSH on my server, I just dont know how to do some things with out it.

Something I would like to suggest to other users and to you Matt, is the use of SSH for FTP

Check this out http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

This is Secure FTP through SSH. We long ago shut down ftp on our internal and external servers (where we can) and only use SFTP through none standard ports.

Just another little piece of mind

[franz]

Thx Matt

i will send ticket for activate SSH access , but

You do need to attach (or upload a link to) a copy of your passport or drivers license.

what is it please ? , which file i must attach ?

( i use always linux FC7 )

rgds
franz

[Matt R.]

Either, we just need valid photo ID to grant SSH.

[dgpadmin]

I would like to reiterate the previous posters request for a secure file transfer protocol, whether it is FTP over SSH or FTPS doesn't really matter to me.

A year ago when I first signed up for an account (actually 2 seperate accounts) at WHB I was concerned that not having SSH access on by default might hinder my work. But, I must say that I have learned to live with the Cpanel interface and some basic web programming to figure out how to make things work for me. Jailed SSH really wouldn't help if it didn't have the same environment as the PHP I want to run from the web server, so I am just fine not having it.

The only thing I haven't been able to do is compile the ImageMagik library to use within the Gallery2 system. Would the jailed SSH (or new SSH system) allow me to compile packages that could be used within the web server environment? As a solution to this I was going to compile the package on a VM running the same kernel, then upload the binaries to the WHB server, which I think is better because it doesn't burn CPU cycles on the web server.

dgp

[Tony]

At the risk of topic hijacking, I just wanted you to know ImageMagick is available and works fine here. I don't think there's a need to compile it yourself.

[dgpadmin]

At the risk of topic hijacking, I just wanted you to know ImageMagick is available and works fine here. I don't think there's a need to compile it yourself.

Ok, I give up looking for it. I need to enter the location of ImageMagick and FFMPEG binaries into the Gallery2 plugin pages. Can you tell me where they are?

Thanks.

Would a restricted SSH account allow me to go find these types of programs already installed on the server, but not in a known location like /usr/local/bin?

dan

[Tony]

IM is at /usr/bin/

Sorry I don't know the answer to your other question.