Difference between revisions of "Create new server user"

Revision as of 16:51, 28 January 2015

Note: balance between descriptive user names and those users commonly use

#either in shell script set USERNAME = Test123 - or manually replace for command line
sudo adduser $USERNAME; 
# Add Full name and in Room the city/country plus in Other some information on sponsor or other collobaration context
sudo mkdir -p /home/$USERNAME/.ssh; 
sudo chmod 0700 /home/$USERNAME/.ssh; 
sudo chown $USERNAME:$USERNAME /home/$USERNAME/.ssh; 
sudo nano /home/$USERNAME/.ssh/authorized_keys; 
sudo ls /home/$USERNAME/.ssh -l; 
sudo chown $USERNAME:$USERNAME /home/$USERNAME/.ssh/authorized_keys; 
sudo chmod 0600 /home/$USERNAME/.ssh/authorized_keys

# this needs to be done manually
sudo mkdir /home/$USERNAME\ =\ <enter full name and institution of user>