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New ssh user setup via github key
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Set newusername as the account name you want the user to have on the server, & newusergithub as that persons github account name. This then takes their public key used with github and allows the user to login to the server via their ssh key.

newusername=bob
newusergithub=bobsgh

sudo useradd -m -d /home/$newusername -s /bin/bash $newusername
cd /home/$newusername/
sudo mkdir .ssh
sudo curl https://github.com/$newusergithub.keys | sudo tee .ssh/authorized_keys
sudo chmod 700 .ssh/
sudo chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
sudo chown -R $newusername:$newusername .ssh/
sudo usermod -aG sudo $newusername    # optionally give sudo access to the user

The user is now setup with ssh access. Last thing to do is ssh in and set a password:

ssh IPHERE
passwd
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