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Creating new Users

Making new account

adduser USERNAME

This will create the user ask for a password and make the home directory.

Set the password to expire immediately

chage -d 0 USERNAME

This is useful in conjunction with the above if you set a temporary password. The user will be asked to reset the password upon logging in.

Setting up an ssh key

An ssh key can be set up for the user if required using instructions Using an SSH Key