Allow ssh access to multiple users on GoDaddy's shared hosting without sharing your password
My aim was to allow a couple of colleagues to ssh into my shared hosting server at GoDaddy. If it was any other server, I could have very well created another user which could be used by anyone else who needs access to the server. But, on GoDaddy shared hosting servers you get just one ssh user, hence this blog entry. As described in Max Beatty's blog , its a very simple job. But my approach was a little different, I did not want to keep copying everyone's public key into my godaddy server's .ssh/authorized_keys2 file. Instead of that, I created a new public/private key pair [ausmarton@ausmarton ~]$ ssh-keygen Next, step which is similar to Max's approach is to copy the newly generated public key onto our server. [ausmarton@ausmarton ~]$ scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote-host:.ssh/authorized_keys2 If you're on a linux system, you can use ssh-copy-id, which does it quite neatly. [ausmarton@ausmarton ~]$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remote-host Now, you just need...