I'm rather new to the whole setting up a server, and hardening a server thing, but I had to start today. I mainly have experience with my ubuntu desktop.
Anyway, I just created a new user, that I intend to use to access the whole website, like this:
As root:
useradd -d /var/www/example.com example
passwd example
... (typing in the pw)
okey. Now, if I try to switch to this user, with
su example
I dont even get a password prompt, but only see a
$
The strange thing is, I apparently dont get a normal commandline like usual, but many things dont work: like syntax highlighting, auto completion with 'TAB', etc - on my ubuntu desktop, I instead get the normal example@...:~#
line. What am I doing wrong?