Create new server user
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Revision as of 16:51, 28 January 2015 by Andreas Plank (Talk | contribs) (added Category:User management using HotCat)
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>