Having only one user, which is root, can be\u00a0dangerous<\/strong>. So let’s fix that. AKWLEB Host provides us with the freedom to do as we please with our users and our servers. Let’s make use of this by adding a user with\u00a0sudo<\/strong>\u00a0access instead of\u00a0direct root access<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Add a new user<\/h3>\n

We need to first connect to the server with root so that we have adequate permissions. Once connected, add another user account.<\/p>\n

# useradd <username>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Replace\u00a0<username><\/code>\u00a0with the desired username.<\/p>\n
That command will add the user to the list of users on the system, and create a corresponding group (if the group doesn’t exist).<\/p>\n
Edit the hostname<\/h3>\n
With the default hostname set, sudo with throw the following error.<\/p>\n
 sudo: unable to resolve host aklwebhost.guest\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
We can prevent this error by changing the hostname. Your hostname is located after the “@” symbol in the shell. For example,\u00a0root@<hostname> ~#<\/code>.<\/p>\n
Edit both\u00a0\/etc\/hosts\/<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0\/etc\/hostname<\/code>\u00a0to update your hostname. Save the files when you’re done editing them.<\/p>\n
nano \/etc\/hosts\r\nnano \/etc\/hostname\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Restart the server<\/h3>\n
You must restart the server for the hostname change to take effect. Once the server finishes rebooting, log back in to continue.<\/p>\n
reboot\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Add a sudo entry<\/h3>\n
Even if you’re root, you will need to run the “sudo” part of the following command.<\/p>\n
sudo visudo\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This will bring up a file with a bit of default info. What you need to look for is the following section:<\/p>\n
# Cmnd alias specification\r\n\r\n# User privilege specification\r\nroot    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Find where “root” appears in the list shown above, and add the following. Substitute the appropriate variables.<\/p>\n
<username> ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Finish setting up user account<\/h3>\n
We are almost finished. A few more minor steps.<\/p>\n
Create the home folder for the new user.<\/p>\n
mkdir \/home\/<username>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Give the new user permissions in that folder.<\/p>\n
chown <username>:<usergroup> \/home\/<username> -R\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Set a password for the new user.<\/p>\n
sudo passwd <username>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Add the following to the\u00a0\/etc\/passwd<\/code>\u00a0file.<\/p>\n
<username>:x:1000:1000::\/home\/<username>:\/bin\/bash\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Reboot the server again for these changes to take effect.<\/p>\n
 reboot \r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Using sudo<\/h3>\n
At this point, your new user account is ready-to-go with sudo access. You may log into the server with this new account and use\u00a0sudo<\/code>\u00a0when necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[242,247],"manual_kb_tag":[451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2904\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}