One SSH user for all sites

[PerudoIS]

We are using ISPConfig 3 on our servers of our webdevelopment company. We are the only user on the server, customers don't have access to their websites. Does ISPConfig 3 has an option to add a SSH user which can access all sites on the server ?

[till]

Thats not possible as every site runs under its own Linux user. The only user that has access to all files on a server is the root user.

[manarak]

well, I guess it is possible to manually create a user that has access to everything under var/www ?

[till]

well, I guess it is possible to manually create a user that has access to everything under var/www ?

No, at least not one that will work. You can create a user with root priveliges that has access to all files or use the root user. But as soon as you use the user to upload files, you will have to chown every file and folder to the owner of the web afterwards. If you dont do this, then suexec and suphp wil deny access to these files.

[BorderAmigos]

I regularly work on my sites as root simply because I work on multiple sites at the same time. Have written some small scripts that chown the appropriate files as needed.