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Adding New User Accounts

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Only logins using SSH authentication are allowed; password-authenticated logins are not supported.

  1. Create the user account. The Debian tool for doing this is useradd: 

    sudo useradd -G svnusers,webmaster -c "<full name>" -m <account-name>

  2. Create the user's SSH authorization keys. 

    cd ~<account-name>
mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh/
jed .ssh/authorized_keys2
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys2
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