Install GUI to ubuntu server on AWS Amazon

Aim

• Install ubuntu server on AWS Amazon
• Can use Remote desktop, RDP, to connect to that server

Reference

• Learn from
• Youtube tutorial

Steps

Install xrdp

$ sudo apt update &&  sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo sed -i 's/^PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
$ sudo passwd <userName>
$ sudo apt install xrdp xfce4 xfce4-goodies tightvncserver
$ echo xfce4-session > /home/ubuntu/.xsession
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/.xsession /etc/skel
$ sudo sed -i '0,/-1/s//ask-1/' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
$ sudo service xrdp restart

$ netstat -antp

Make local redirect ssh tunnel

• ssh -Llocalhost:8888:<VPS private IP>:3389 -i <private key from VPS> <VPS user>@<VPS domain>
• VPS private IP:
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• Connection information, you can get from AWS:
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Use Remmina from local ubuntu

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