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Add new user to linux machine non-interactively
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add_user_to_linux_noninteractively.sh
# I often want to add new users
# to AWS machines in a semi-automated
# script, perhaps via SSH. Doing
# so noninteractively took some search
# work.
sudo useradd USERNAME
echo "USERNAME:NEWPASSWORD" | sudo chpasswd
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