HPUX - Secure Shell, multiple users in one home directory

[Mike Smith_33]

I have system running 11.11 with secure shell
A.04.20.004. I have several app support folk who have individual accounts with their home directory as the application top level directory.

One of the guys logged in (which put him in the app dir) and created his key. When the next guy logged in and tried to create his key, everything seemed to go normally but the file was unchanged.

Anybody have a similar setup?

Users A, B, and C all login to application directory D by default. How can each user gen their key?

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

You can't do this - that's one of the security features of ssh....

Each user must have their own home dir and keys...

One way around this - gieve them all the same id - a generic one....

Rgds...Geoff

[Ivan Ferreira]

You should configure a private home for each user, and then, generate the keys.

The users can have a cd to the app directory when the logon (in the profile), so they go there by default, but the private home is needed (also for security).

[Mike Smith_33]

Apparently we are not able to do this as we thought we would be able to. We will need to modify the home directory of the accounts in order to get this to work.