diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This playbook defines the configuration for all servers / devices controlled by
 
 Following roles have been defined to make creating a server configuration easy:
 
+- **account** installs an user account preconfigured with tmux, vim and zsh.
 - **acme** defines roles for handling the automatic handling of certificates with *acme.sh*
   - **application** installs main application
   - **certificate** issues a given certificate
diff --git a/roles/account/defaults/main.yml b/roles/account/defaults/main.yml
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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+
+sudo: no
+zsh_theme: agnoster
diff --git a/roles/account/tasks/main.yml b/roles/account/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+
+- name: Install required packages
+  apt:
+    state: present
+    name:
+      - git
+      - httpie
+      - man
+      - thefuck
+      - tmux
+      - zsh
+
+- name: Configure user account {{ username }}
+  user:
+    name: "{{ username }}"
+    home: "/home/{{ username }}"
+    create_home: yes
+    move_home: yes
+    shell: /bin/zsh
+    groups:
+      - "{{ sudo | ternary('sudo', '') }}"
+    append: yes
+    password: "{{ password | password_hash('sha512', LOCAL_SALT) }}"
+    update_password: on_create
+    generate_ssh_key: yes
+    ssh_key_type: ed25519
+    ssh_key_file: .ssh/id_ed25519
+    ssh_key_passphrase: "{{ password }}"
+    ssh_key_comment: "{{ username }}@{{ ansible_fqdn }} {{ ansible_date_time.date }}"
+
+- name: Download oh-my-zsh for user {{ username }}
+  become_user: "{{ username }}"
+  git:
+    repo: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git
+    dest: ~/.oh-my-zsh
+
+- name: Configure oh-my-zsh
+  become_user: "{{ username }}"
+  template:
+    src: template.zshrc
+    dest: ~/.zshrc
+    force: no
+
+# TODO tmux configuration
+
+# TODO vim configuration
diff --git a/roles/account/templates/template.zshrc b/roles/account/templates/template.zshrc
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+# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
+# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+
+# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
+export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"
+
+# Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will
+# load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case,
+# to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME
+# See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
+ZSH_THEME="{{ zsh_theme }}"
+
+# Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random
+# Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random will cause zsh to load
+# a theme from this variable instead of looking in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
+# If set to an empty array, this variable will have no effect.
+# ZSH_THEME_RANDOM_CANDIDATES=( "robbyrussell" "agnoster" )
+
+# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
+# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion.
+# Case-sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
+# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
+DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="false"
+DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
+export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=2
+
+# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
+DISABLE_LS_COLORS="false"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
+DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="false"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
+ENABLE_CORRECTION="false"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
+COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="false"
+
+# Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files
+# under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories
+# much, much faster.
+# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
+# stamp shown in the history command output.
+# You can set one of the optional three formats:
+# "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
+# or set a custom format using the strftime function format specifications,
+# see 'man strftime' for details.
+# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"
+
+# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
+# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder
+
+# Which plugins would you like to load?
+# Standard plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*
+# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
+# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
+# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
+plugins=(
+  colored-man-pages
+  colorize
+  command-not-found
+  common-aliases
+  debian
+  emoji-clock
+  git
+  httpie
+  lol
+  magic-enter
+  man
+  systemd
+  thefuck
+  themes
+  tmux
+  ufw
+)
+
+MAGIC_ENTER_GIT_COMMAND='git status -u .'
+MAGIC_ENTER_OTHER_COMMAND='ls -lh .'
+
+ZSH_TMUX_AUTOSTART=true
+ZSH_TMUX_AUTOCONNECT=true
+ZSH_TMUX_AUTOQUIT=true
+
+export ANSIBLE_NOCOWS=1
+
+source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
+
+# User configuration
+
+# export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"
+
+# You may need to manually set your language environment
+# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+
+# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
+# if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
+#   export EDITOR='vim'
+# else
+#   export EDITOR='mvim'
+# fi
+
+# Compilation flags
+# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
+
+# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
+# plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh
+# users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder.
+# For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`.
+#
+# Example aliases
+# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
+# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"