(wherever it says url.com, use your server's domain or IP)
Login to new server as root, then add a deploy user
sudo useradd --create-home -s /bin/bash deploy
sudo adduser deploy sudo
sudo passwd deploy
And Update the new password
Now login as that user
ssh deploy@url.com
Make directory .ssh on the remote server and log out
mkdir .ssh
exit
Push your ssh key to the authorized_keys file on the remote server
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub deploy@url.com:~/.ssh/authorized_keys
My hostgator server has something called
jailshell
which I guess does not allow access to thesudo
command:Plus, I don't know why this happens? Is it not linux?
And most importantly, can you please elaborate why would we need an extra user called
deploy
? Is there some reason behind it?Thanks Will. You have amazing tutorials.