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Any number of remote web servers may be configured. They need an aegir user and webserver configuration, with the same user name and directory paths. SSH public/private keys should be set up so hostmaster's Aegir user can access remote web Aegir users with no passwords. The above Apache configuration needs to be performed too.

They will also need a login shell, which can be modified using the chsh command.

Shell commands as root::

adduser --system --group --home /var/aegir aegir
adduser aegir www-data    #make aegir a user of group www-data
chsh -s /bin/sh aegir
apt-get install rsync apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-mysql
mkdir /var/aegir/.ssh
cat > /var/aegir/.ssh/authorized_keys <<EOF
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQAB...UF aegir@filer01
EOF
chown aegir:aegir /var/aegir/.ssh -R
chmod 750 /var/aegir/.ssh
chmod 640 /var/aegir/.ssh/authorized_keys
a2enmod rewrite
ln -s /var/aegir/config/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/aegir.conf
cat > /etc/sudoers.d/aegir <<EOF
Defaults:aegir  !requiretty
aegir ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl
EOF
chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/aegir

For clusters, use the aegir-cluster-slave package to operate the above and NFS mounts for you. See also web cluster configuration documentation.