setup sudo root for new server

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2025-05-31 at 21:26 -0400, bruce wrote:
>  I can set up ssh
>  I can setup a generic user "tom" and the root user
>  Tom can ssh into the srvr.  root can't

Root login over ssh is almost certainly explicitly blocked in the sshd
configuration. Generally speaking, you should use sudo to do root
things.

What's the overall point of this? Are you trying to set up a sort of
multi-tenant shared webserver, where tom, mary, fred and jane can all
run their own websites? Or is there just one website, but you want an
unprivileged user e.g. tom, to be able to manage the website?

Or something else?

Regards, K.

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