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We have a server which we connect through and do remote tasks. However, around 4-5 people login with the same username and password. Can this situation cause anything weird?

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Define weird ..

You will not be able to use history, or other last-used settings, in a meaningful manner as anyone could have used/set these last. You will also be unable to assign responsibility, if anything goes wrong.

I don't recommend this practice, unless you don't care what happens to this server (and its content).


The SSH sessions themselves will be fine.

I have maintained more than one session, when monitoring command-line transfers or configuration, with no issues.

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  • Well thanks for the answer so the best option would be to create new users I presume. By the way how can I check which users (ips for example) are connected and how many ssh connections are present at a given time?
    – Vesnog
    May 4, 2014 at 0:55
  • Yes, and you should use accounts with sudo rights. Then sudo logs will tell you what you need.
    – david6
    May 4, 2014 at 2:28
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    @vesnog w or who
    – user234837
    May 4, 2014 at 7:09
  • @david6 Is sudo logs an additional command or you are talking about something else?
    – Vesnog
    May 4, 2014 at 15:38
  • No, its log data that is collected in: /var/log/auth.log. Try this command: tail -f /var/log/auth.log OR cat /var/log/auth.log | grep sudo | tail -20
    – david6
    May 5, 2014 at 7:59

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