#1 Add user without password non-interactively adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" username_new_user #2 Grant root access to the user usermod -aG sudo username_new_user #3 Create a folder named .ssh cd /home/username_new_user mkdir ~/.ssh #4 Create a blank file named id_rsa cd ~/.ssh touch id_rsa #5 Change the file permission of id_rsa sudo chmod 0444 id_rsa #6 Change the ownership sudo chown -R username_new_user: /home