{"id":884,"date":"2016-05-02T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2016-05-03T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:05:50","slug":"create-a-new-user-on-ec2-and-give-sudo-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/create-a-new-user-on-ec2-and-give-sudo-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a new user on EC2 and give sudo privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assumptions:<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><em>newhost.compute.internal<\/em><\/strong> is the new host you launched<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><em>ec2-user<\/em><\/strong> is the user created by EC2<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><em>newuser<\/em><\/strong> is the user you want created and need password-less ssh &#038; sudo privileges<br \/>\n&#8211; id_rsa.pub is <strong><em>newuser&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> public key<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># Copy  <strong><em>newuser&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> id_rsa.pub to the new instance<br \/>\nscp -i ~\/.ssh\/my.pem ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub ec2-user@newhost.compute.internal:~<\/p>\n<p># Login to the newhost (and sudo as root)<br \/>\nssh -i ~\/.ssh\/my.pem ec2-user@newhost.compute.internal<br \/>\nsudo su &#8211;<\/p>\n<p># add newuser and copy the keys<br \/>\nuseradd -c &#8220;firstname lastname&#8221; newuser<br \/>\ncd \/home\/newuser<br \/>\nmkdir .ssh<br \/>\ncat \/home\/ec2-user\/newuser.pub >> .ssh\/authorized_keys<\/p>\n<p># provide right ownership and permissions<br \/>\nchmod 700 .ssh<br \/>\nchmod 600 .ssh\/authorized_keys<br \/>\nchown -R newuser:newuser \/home\/newuser<\/p>\n<p># give sudo access<br \/>\nvim \/etc\/sudoers<br \/>\nnewuser ALL=(ALL:ALL)  NOPASSWD:ALL\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assumptions: &#8211; newhost.compute.internal is the new host you launched &#8211; ec2-user is the user created by EC2 &#8211; newuser is the user you want created and need password-less ssh &#038; sudo privileges &#8211; id_rsa.pub is newuser&#8217;s public key # Copy newuser&#8217;s id_rsa.pub to the new instance scp -i ~\/.ssh\/my.pem ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub ec2-user@newhost.compute.internal:~ # Login to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}