<h3 id="create-new-account">Create New Account</h3>
<p>$ adduser admin1 --home /var/www</p>
<h3 id="add-new-account-as-sudoers">Add New Account as Sudoers</h3>
<p>$ nano /etc/sudoers</p>
<p><img src="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-andyyme/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-10-48-29-AM.png" alt /></p>
<h3 id="disable-root-account">Disable root account</h3>
<p>$ nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config</p>
<p><strong>Change root login</strong> <code>PermitRootLogin yes</code> change to <code>PermitRootLogin no</code> <img src="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-andyyme/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-10-38-55-AM.png" alt /> <strong>Change SSH port</strong> <code>Port 22</code> change to Port e.q <code>2223</code> <img src="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-andyyme/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-10-41-53-AM.png" alt /> <strong>Restart SSH</strong></p>
<p>$ service ssh restart</p>
<p><strong>Change Owner www/html folder</strong></p>
<p>$ sudo chown -R admin1:root /var/www/html</p>


### Create New Account

$ adduser admin1 --home /var/www

### Add New Account as Sudoers

$ nano /etc/sudoers

![](https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-andyyme/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-10-48-29-AM.png)

### Disable root account

$ nano /etc/ssh/sshd\_config

**Change root login** `PermitRootLogin yes` change to `PermitRootLogin no` ![](https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-andyyme/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-10-38-55-AM.png) **Change SSH port** `Port 22` change to Port e.q `2223` ![](https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-andyyme/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-10-41-53-AM.png) **Restart SSH**

$ service ssh restart

**Change Owner www/html folder**

$ sudo chown -R admin1:root /var/www/html

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