Rails - Jul 2006 - Dreamhost - how to login to your unix account?

[apologies but dreamhost forums are down & I''m keen to get a rails
up on
my dreamhost account but the following isn''t clear to me - I''m
just
hoping one of the rails dreamhost users can set me straight]

I''m having difficulty in PUTTY to login to my unix account.
I''ve
tried by using Putty SSH to access
"<firstlogin>@<the_dns_i_bought>" but
then
when I enter the password:

a) if I use my initial account username/password this doesn''t seem to 
work (password incorrect message)
b) if I use the password dreamhost generated for mail/ftp I get a "use 
can
only use this account for FTP access" type error message.

Q1 - What is the exact syntax for the URL I should be using in PUTTY
to login to my unix account for my new dreamhost hosting I''ve bought?

Q2 - What username/password should I be using for this? (i.e. in the
dreamhost web panel I can only seem to see the username/password 
settings for
thing like FTP and mail, but what about the basic unix account)

Thanks

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Hi Greg,
> b) if I use the password dreamhost generated for mail/ftp I get a "use
> can
> only use this account for FTP access" type error message.
You''re on track here - this is the username and password you need for 
SSH. However you''ll need to enable SSH for the account. You can do that
in the control panel under Users -> Manage Users. Click "Edit" for
the
relevant user, check the "Enable ssh/telnet?" box and save changes.

Hope that helps.

Simon

Excellent - got it - thanks Simon

Simon Robson wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
>> b) if I use the password dreamhost generated for mail/ftp I get a
"use
>> can
>> only use this account for FTP access" type error message.
> 
> You''re on track here - this is the username and password you need
for
> SSH. However you''ll need to enable SSH for the account. You can do
that
> in the control panel under Users -> Manage Users. Click "Edit"
for the
> relevant user, check the "Enable ssh/telnet?" box and save
changes.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Simon

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