PingIntelligence

Creating a new user

About this task

If you do not have a user as mentioned in the PingIntelligence automated deployment preparation section, complete the following steps on all the provisioned host machines.

If you already have a user as described in Creating a new SSH user and configuring user authentication, start with Copying the PingIntelligence license.

Steps

  1. Create an ec2-user.

    The hosts file in the automation package has ec2-user as the default user.

    1. Optional: To create your own username, run the #useradd ec2-user command.

  2. Change the password by running the #passwd ec2-user command.

    If you’re installing PingIntelligence software as a non-sudo user, skip steps 3-5.

  3. Add the user to the wheel group by running the #usermod -aG wheel ec2-user command.

  4. Configure passwordless sudo access:

    #visudo
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

  5. Verify the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file for PubKeyAuthentication.

    Troubleshooting:

    If it is set to no, then set it to yes and restart sshd service by the #systemctl restart sshd command.