[SATLUG] Add unprivileged user to WRT-54G running dd-wrt?

[John Pappas]

On Nov 23, 2007 8:14 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to add an unprivileged user to a Linksys WRT-54GL
> running the dd-wrt firmware?  I want to add a regular user account for
> ssh port forwarding, and cannot see how to make it stick.  /etc/passwd
> is a symlink to /tmp/etc/passwd which seems to be overwritten on each
> boot.  I must confess I am not familiar enough with the dd-wrt
> firmware to know how to tackle this one.

If you are doing SSH, how about the "Authorized Keys" field in
Administration | Services?  Let me know if this works for port
forwarding.  The other option is to use the VPN version with OpenVPN.

HTH,
John