---
author: ~ben
published: false
title: administration
description: advanced ssh tutorial
category: 
    - main
---

# administration
---


## adding users

1. create a new user account:
```bash
sudo adduser newusername
```
use the default password `tilde`

1. su newusername and then copy the ssh key into ~/.ssh/known_hosts

1. respond to their email with their account information (template coming soon), including a reminder to set up their .forward file if desired, and encourge them to hop onto irc/#meta to meet the community


automated account creation is something that i would like to look into. maybe this can be an admin portal (similar to ~town) that would notify admins when a new signup arrives and prompt them to go to the web interface to approve/deny/respond to the account request.


---
## backups

tilde.team uses [tarsnap](https://tarsnap.com) for backups and is configured to save 12 hourly backups, 7 daily backups, 6 weekly backups, and 2 years' worth of monthly backups.

to see a list of the backups:
```bash
sudo tarsnap --list-archives
```

to restore a backup:
```bash
tarsnap -x -f name-of-backup
```

we keep backups of:
* `/home`
* `/etc`
* `/var` (excluding `/var/log`)

see the [tarsnap documentation](https://www.tarsnap.com/usage.html) for more information.