[sllug-members]: How does one properly implement OpenSSH?

[Lonnie Olson]

Nathan Lane wrote:
> That does help - thank you. I understand that security through obscurity 
> is a debatable method of security, and that it may give a false sense of 
> increased security.  I want to set it up in order to manage my server 
> remotely.  If my users are local users and not domain users, what is the 
> proper way to set them up? I've had difficulty because my user name 
> seems to be two words separated by a space, and logging in like
> 
> ssh localhost -l "Nathan Lane"
> 
> didn't seem to work.   That's why I'm here now.  Maybe I need to fix my 
> user name first?  The password file seems to contain both my workgroup 
> and correct username though.  But I didn't see a specific switch for 
> workgroup/domain, so I tried
> 
> ssh localhost -l "workgroup\Nathan Lane"

You should be using the "User Name"  and not the "Full Name".  The 
username is the short username that uniquely identifies you.  It doesn't 
contain spaces at all.

If you are using local accounts look in your user manager for "User 
Name".  If you are using Active Directory accounts, look in Active 
Directory for the "logon name" listed in the Account tab.

--lonnie