How to enable SSH/SFTP access to a JumpBox

WARNING: This documentation is out of date. All up to date documentation is now in the JumpBox Wiki All relevant documentation has been ported to the wiki and is updated there. These FAQs are here strictly for historical reasons.

Out of the box JumpBox applications do not allow remote login via SSH. The application should still be fully functional and usable for many cases, but for advanced usage it may be desirable to turn on shell logins. The function to do this is enabled if you register the JumpBox and here's how to turn it on.

WARNING: Enabling SSH gives you full access to the JumpBox. This also means you have full access to really break stuff. We try to be helpful, but once you enable SSH, our ability to effectively support the JumpBox comes to an end so be very careful.

Please see the documentation that corresponds to the JumpBox version you are using:

Once you do this you have full access to the JumpBox.