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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions docs/platform/accounts-and-passwords.md
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Expand Up @@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ Here's how to set a user's access permissions:
3. Enter your password and click **Authenticate**. The *User Manager* webpage appears.
4. Locate the user in the list and select the **Edit Permissions** link. The webpage shown below appears.

[![Configure permissions for a user in the Linode Manager.](/docs/assets/922-user1-small.png)](/docs/assets/921-user1.png)
[![Configure permissions for a user in the Linode Manager.](/docs/assets/922-user1-small.png)](/docs/assets/921-user1.png)

5. Select checkboxes in the **Global Grants** section to allow the user to add Linodes, Domains, and NodeBalancers to the account, create StackScripts, access all billing information, and cancel the entire account.

{{< note >}}
{{< note >}}
Granting access to settings denoted with a dollar sign (\$) will allow the user perform actions that incur billing costs, such as adding or resizing a Linode.
{{< /note >}}

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ssh-keygen

**Optional:** to increase the security of your key, increase the size with the `-b` flag. The minimum value is 768 bytes and the default, if you do not use the flag, is 2048 bytes. We recommend a 4096 byte key:
**Optional:** to increase the security of your key, increase the size with the `-b` flag. The minimum value is 768 bytes and the default, if you do not use the flag, is 2048 bytes. We recommend a 4096 byte key:

ssh-keygen -b 4096
ssh-keygen -b 4096

2. Answer all questions when prompted. You can accept the defaults for everything except the passphrase. When you get to the passphrase question, enter a series of letters and numbers for the passphrase twice; once to enter the new passphrase and once to confirm.

**Important:** make a note of your passphrase, as you will need it later.
**Important:** make a note of your passphrase, as you will need it later.

You may accept the defaults for the other questions by pressing *Return* when prompted:
You may accept the defaults for the other questions by pressing *Return* when prompted:

user@linode: ssh-keygen -b 4096
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
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mkdir .ssh

The following steps are performed on your local machine/PC:
The following steps are performed on your local machine/PC:

3. Copy the *public key* into the `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file on the **remote machine**, using the following command. Substitute your own SSH user and host names:

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{{< note >}}
Should you encounter the error that there is "*no directory /var/run/fail2ban to contain the socket file /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock*", create the directory manually:

'mkdir /var/run/fail2ban'
mkdir /var/run/fail2ban
{{< /note >}}

### Debian
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{{< note >}}
The current version of Sendmail in Debian Jessie has an [upstream bug](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293017) which causes the following errors when installing `sendmail-bin`. The installation will hang for a minute, but then complete.
Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER() MAILER(`local') must appear after FEATURE(`always_add_domain')
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER() MAILER(`local') must appear after FEATURE(`allmasquerade')

Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER() MAILER('local') must appear after FEATURE('always_add_domain')
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER() MAILER('local') must appear after FEATURE('allmasquerade')
{{< /note >}}

### Fedora
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