diff --git a/setup/setup_git b/setup/setup_git
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..acac41b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/setup_git
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+git config --global user.name "Ian Mancini"
+git config --global user.email ianmethyst@gmail.com 
+git config --global core.editor nvim 
diff --git a/setup/setup_hostname b/setup/setup_hostname
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..47462ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/setup_hostname
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -Eeo pipefail
+
+if (( $EUID != 0 )); then
+    echo "Should be run as root"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]
+  then
+    echo "Usage: $(basename $0) hostname"
+fi
+
+echo $1 > /etc/hostname
+
+cat >> /etc/hosts <<EOF
+127.0.0.1   localhost
+::1         localhost
+127.0.1.1   $1.localdomain   $1
+EOF
diff --git a/setup/setup_locale b/setup/setup_locale
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1c8ea07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/setup_locale
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+if (( $EUID != 0 )); then
+    echo "Should be run as root"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+sed -i '/^#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/s/^#//g' /etc/locale.gen
+locale-gen
+echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
diff --git a/setup/setup_user b/setup/setup_user
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..daf5a6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/setup_user
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+if (( $EUID != 0 )); then
+    echo "Should be run as root"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+useradd -m -G wheel -s '/usr/bin/zsh' ianmethyst
+sed -i '/^# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/s/^# //g' /etc/sudoers