Thanks to everyone in the world who helped me with this script. Read -rsp $'Press any key to exit.\n' -n1 key Let us see the addition via the usermod command. You have plenty of ways to add the new user to the sudo group via the terminal. sudo adduser ouruser Now you have a whole new user that is ready to be added to the sudoers group. | sudo xargs sed -i 's/$olduser/$newuser/g' Addition of sudo User via the Terminal At first, you have to create a whole new user using the adduser command. home/$newuser/Ĭhown -R -from=$olduser $newuser:$newuser /home/$newuserĮcho "Now we are going to change the names of files and folders to the new user" Read -rsp $'Ready to copy home folder - or ctrl-c to exit.\n' -n1 key # change to the directory and run this commandĮcho "this script will create a new user"Įcho "You will be shown a list of users who can currently log on"Įcho "Remember which user you would like to clone."Įcho "You will be asked for the new user's name, their password"Īwk -F'' '' /etc/passwdĮcho "We are now going to copy the old user's home folder to the new user"Įcho "then change ownership to the new user" Create a new user account using the adduser command.
DEBIAN CREATE SUDO USER HOW TO
You are responsible for any code you copy - make backups! #!/bin/bash Log in to your system as the root user: ssh rootserveripaddress How To Create a Sudo User on Ubuntu 2. Watch out if you have a huge old user's home directory.
To get the password to work I had the create a new line: echo $newuser:$newpassword | chpasswd.Īnother difference is that I couldn't get -create-home to work so I just used mkdir in a new line instead. The main difference in my script regarding the useradd line is that the passwd fails in Linux Mint 18, replaced by chpasswd. This means that they will only be able to modify files in their own home directory, which is what we want. Based on Mike Anderson's script, I made one that asks questions about the new user, the old user, the new password, and then copies the old user's home directory and replaces all instances of the old user's name in the new home directory with the new user's name.
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