Linux Server Install: Part 3

Create a New Account and add it to the sudoers list, bruh.

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Add Users

Let’s add a morty!

To add a new user named “morty” on an Ubuntu server, you can use the following steps:

sudo adduser morty

You will be prompted to enter and confirm a password for the user. Choose a secure password and enter it twice at the prompts.

You will also be prompted to enter additional information about the user, such as their full name and contact details. This information is optional, so you can simply press Enter to skip each prompt if you do not want to provide it.

Once the user has been added, you can use the usermod command to add the user to any additional groups or to modify their other settings, if needed. For example, to add the user to the sudo group, you would run the following command:

sudo usermod -aG sudo morty

Finally, you can verify that the user has been added by running the id command and specifying the username:

id morty

This should show you the user’s UID, GID, and any groups that the user belongs to.

Verify morty has sudo privileges:

sudo -lU morty

Now let’s disable logins for the root account:

sudo passwd -l root

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