If your Options file are on a different machine, then follow
these instructions if you want to access your remote file via SSH.
Procedure
- Log in to the local host as root.
- Generate Apache user authorized_keys file.
#sudo mkdir /var/www/.ssh
#sudo chown -R apache:nobody /var/www/.ssh
#sudo -u apache ssh-keygen -t rsa
- Copy the generated authorized_keys file to the remote host.
A file "authorized_keys" should be created in <remote
host name>:/root/.ssh.
#ssh-copy-id -i /var/www/.ssh/id_rsa <remote host name>
- Log in to the remote host and move the authorized_keys
file to the Apache user root directory (/var/www/.ssh)
#sudo mkdir /var/www/.ssh
#mv /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /var/www/.ssh
#sudo chown -R apache:nobody /var/www/.ssh
- Add or modify Apache user permission on the remote host.
Note: In the RTM host, Apache user is defined as a nologin user. In the remote host make sure that you can log in as a normal
user. Otherwise the SSH remote access will fail.
- Verify if we can use Apache user from the local host to
access remote file via SSH.
Log in to the local host and
run this command as
root:
#sudo -u apache ssh <remote host name> cat <option file path>