Your new server install is up and running, do I get up to login at the keyboard or do I just SSH in from the couch via laptop and live with the fact that being that lazy doesn’t bother me? We all know that mental battle 😀 SSH in it is…
So now for some handy new server commands that I always find I use and sometimes forget (don’t tell anyone).
Can’t quite remember exactly which version of Ubuntu you are running?
example stoke@zeus:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal
How much Hard Drive storage do I have left?
example stoke@zeus:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 389M 1.3M 388M 1% /run /dev/sda2 183G 6.2G 167G 4% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop1 68M 68M 0 100% /snap/lxd/21835 /dev/loop2 44M 44M 0 100% /snap/snapd/14978 /dev/loop0 62M 62M 0 100% /snap/core20/1328 tmpfs 389M 0 389M 0% /run/user/1000
How do I switch to Root account after fresh install?
example stoke@zeus:/root$ sudo su root@zeus:~#
How do I change the password for the root account?
First make sure I am logged in with a user that has sudo priviliges
example stoke@zeus:~$ sudo passwd root New password: Retype new password: passwd: password updated successfully stoke@zeus:~$
example stoke@zeus:~$ su root Password: su: Authentication failure stoke@zeus:~$
In the example shown we have just installed Ubuntu Server