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Can SSH username be---this?
| Posted by rebecaworld, 07-03-2010, 04:52 AM |
| Hello could any lovely soul tell me If SSH username could be something like this?:
server.domain.com
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| Posted by HD-Sam, 07-03-2010, 05:07 AM |
| Yes it certainly can. I have done this and know it works on CentOS
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| Posted by zomex, 07-03-2010, 06:02 AM |
| It can be but generally it's not going to be your hostname.
Regards,
Jack
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| Posted by inspiron, 07-03-2010, 09:18 AM |
| Are on VPS or dedicated hosting? If VPS you will have to login with username root and its password.
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| Posted by icethundernet, 07-03-2010, 09:22 AM |
| it is a very good idea to create a unique username [not only a hard to guess password ] it ads some etra security.
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| Posted by Stream101, 07-03-2010, 09:33 AM |
| I would contact your host to find out what the SSH username is. Also, it sounds, to me, that you do not have a lot of experience with SSH. If you do have a root access, be careful as you can really mess your system up if you dont know what you are doing.
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| Posted by rebecaworld, 07-03-2010, 03:11 PM |
| Thanks everybody for enlighting me,what I thaught it was is something some guy told me that SSH username can not be changed that it always has to be root,and guess what felas I tried it and it worked,well now that Im
logged in I have a proof that is truly vps and not shared,some guy told me that I also check index on SSH that this would lead me also to find out it really is vps
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| Posted by Tyl3r, 07-03-2010, 09:21 PM |
| That has nothing to do with being a shared, VPS or dedicated. cPanel limits you to a particular amount of letters, but other control panels don't.
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| Posted by net, 07-03-2010, 09:23 PM |
| Moved > Hosting Security and Technology.
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