ssh into NAS326 as regular user

ramack

I am able to ssh into my NAS326 using my admin account. Shouldn't I be able to do the same, but as a regular user too?

ikubuf

No, the regular user account cannot use ssh to access the NAS

ramack

Can an ssh config be edited to allow regular users to ssh in?

ikubuf

As I know, it does not allow a regular user to have ssh access to the device.
And the access could only for administrator or root user.

Mijzelf

The problem is that a regular user doesn't have a shell account, no entry in XXX. There is only a Samba account.

In my Tweaks package I added an option to let regular users have a shell, by adding an entry to XXX, but their shell password is handled separately.

/Edit: I can't submit a post containing the real content of XXX, Cloudflare doesn't accept that. XXX stands for the password file /etc/

Teligence

https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/15524/ssh-into-nas326-as-regular-user

what syntax are you using for your admin account?

kinuris

Hello. I'm having same problem but with NSA 325v2. I can ssh using admin, but can't using other users. The users are present int /etc/passwd. I've tried using adduser to create a regular unix user, and this new user is unable to ssh in the NAS too.

Could you give some light on this?

Mijzelf

You can only ssh if the user has a homedirectory and a shell specified in /etc/passwd, and that directory exists.

/etc/passwd is volatile, your changes won't survive a reboot.