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setup new server.md

Notes for setting up a new server

Add new user for general use

sudo su
useradd -m -d /home/<username> <username>
passwd <username>
visudo
  <username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
<edit /etc/passwd so default shell for <username> is /bin/bash>
su <username>
cd
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

Allow passwordless SSH

vim .ssh/authorized_keys
<add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from remote comp>
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
ssh ...

Mount RDS on boot

sudo su
blkid
mkdir -p /data
vim /etc/fstab
  UUID=...       /data/disk1     xfs     defaults,noatime
mount -a

Install nginx

apt-get install nginx
ufw app list
ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'
ufw allow 'Nginx HTTPS'
ufw allow 'OpenSSH'
ufw enable
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