adding user

[charlesreid1]

adding user to a group - automation step does not work

have to create user, and home directory (otherwise, mkdir /home/username, chown username:username /home/username)

have to do a useradd, then do a usermod for ubuntu group, then a usermod for sudo group

but then the netdata installer asks for a sudo password, and ruins the headless installation process.

usermod -a -G sudo

why is this being done by the user if it requires sudo?

[fp9695253]

removing the netdata installation step avoids solving the underlying problem.

the underlying problem is the user is being prompted for the sudo password, even though they're part of the sudo group.

need to add this to /etc/sudoers.d/some-file:

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

replace the literal string username with the username and put this into any file in /etc/sudoers.d/ (must be done as sudo, obviously).

This is already configured for the ubuntu user by the cloud-init process on AWS nodes, which we've been taking advantage of and sidestepping the user creation process.

[fp9695253]

Need to install some things too:

• virtualenv