Adding a new user to a server Print

To add a new user to your server and create an isolated site, follow the following tutorial.

1. Log into the server and escalate your user to sudo permissions. 
2. Add a new user to ubuntu using the following command:
   

   useradd -m -d /home/username -s /bin/bash username​

   *replace "username" with the name of the new user you are adding.
3. masq into the new user using the following command:
   

   su username​

   *replace "username" with the name of the new user you just created.

4. move to the new user's home directory
   

   cd ~​

5. Create a new SSH keypair so that user can connect to the server via SSH
   

   ssh-keygen -t rsa​

6. Press "return" to set the location of the new rsa key to the default location (/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa):
7. Press "return" to skip adding a passphrase
8. Press "return" to confirm skipping of a new passphrase
9. Output the public key to use in your SFTP tools.
   

   cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub​

10. Copy the output and save it in your SFTP tool as a key.
11. Test the SSH connection.