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I created a newuser on EC2 following this document AWS doc. Now I can use this user to SSH to the EC2 instance. The only issue is that every time when I need to use sudo (for example, when I do sudo yum update), it asks for password:
[sudo] password for newuser:
I created a password for newuser but this password does not work.
Bruce
Posted 2017-05-25T21:14:59.243
Reputation: 23
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The procedure given in the article you linked does not have you set a password, so there is no password.
To set a password, login as a user that is allowed to sudo and run:
sudo passwd newuser
You will have to enter the password for newuser twice and then it should be set.
If you want newuser to be allowed to sudo, then you'll have to also edit /etc/sudoers to add a line such as:
# User privilege specification
newuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
That tip is from here.
James T Snell
Posted 2017-05-25T21:14:59.243
Reputation: 5 726
I set a password for
newuser. I typed this password when asked, it saysnewuser is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.– Bruce – 2017-05-26T13:03:23.723Looks like you're going to gitmo! In the meantime, I've updated my answer to explain extending sudo support to a new user. It is not automatically given to users, as it's full admin and doing so would defeat most of the point of even having users. – James T Snell – 2017-05-26T16:56:46.750
Good point. I need to re-think why creating
newuser. – Bruce – 2017-05-30T13:36:03.823