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In the procedure that follows, you will perform the following tasks:
You will grant the Administrators group permission to access all your available AWS account resources. Available resources are any AWS products you use, or that you are signed up for. Users in the Administrators group can also access your AWS account information, except for your AWS account's security credentials.
Lab: Creating IAM Admin User and Group
1. On the navigation bar, choose your account name, and then choose My Account.
2. Next to IAM User and Role Access to Billing Information, choose Edit.
3. Select the check box to Activate IAM Access and choose Update.
4. On the navigation bar, choose Services and then IAM to return to the IAM dashboard.
and then type your new password in the text box. By default, AWS forces the new user to create a new password when first signing in. You can optionally clear the check box next to User must create a new password at next sign-in to allow the new user to reset their password after they sign in.
When you are ready to proceed, choose Create user.
Amazon EC2 Linux servers do not come with GUI, all the operations have to be done using ssh client like putty. So, if you wish to have a GUI for your EC2 Linux instances, you need to install one. Once you installed the GUI Desktop on your server, you can access it via remote desktop client like Windows Remote Connections.
There are several Desktops for Linux such as:
Here we will install LXDE.
Step 1: Connect to the server using ssh client putty. How To Connect Ubuntu Server Using Putty?
Step 2: Make sure that RDP port is enabled on the Ubuntu instance in which you are going to install lxde. Update the server and install lxde using the following commands.
$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get install lxde -y
Step 3: Install xrdp to establish a remote desktop connection since you can’t have a GUI using putty. Use the following command to install xrdp
$ sudo apt-get install xrdp -y
$ sudo passwd ubuntu
Step 4: Set a password for the default user “ubuntu”, as remote desktop connection requires username and password.
Note: You can set up your own user and password for remote desktop
Step 5: Start the windows remote desktop client and enter the public DNS or the public IP of your server instance and hit connect.
Step 6: Enter the username and password of the server instance that we created in step 5 and hit ok. Make sure RDP 3389 is enabled in your security group.
Note that the default theme is black. You can change it as follows:
To change the default GTK2 theme on the LXDE desktop, you’ll need to open the LXAppearance. The fastest way to launch this app is by opening it with the launcher. Press ALT + F2, type “lxappearance” and press the enter key.
Inside LXAppearance, the GTK2 theme browser is the default page. Scroll through the list, and select a theme that suits you. After selecting a theme, click “apply”.
Now that we have the Desktop installed, we can install an office suite. Follow the following steps to install Open office, an opensource Office suite.
Step 1: We will install this in the /opt directory
sudo su -
cd /opt
Step 2: Download the package. Copy and paste the following on your Linux shell
Step 3: extract the tar file and move into the correct folder and install OpenOffice using dpkg
tar -xvf download
cd en-US/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
dpkg -i *.deb
At this point, you have Openoffice installed. The following applications were installed:
To see the applications, go to start and click on Office applications, and you will see all the above applications. You can start using them if you like.
In this part, you will install gnome to help you switch between the LXDE (you installed earlier) and Gnome. This is just to give you more Linux practice.
sudo apt install gnome-session
Before we can switch the new desktop and theme, we need to install the Vanilla Gnome theme.
sudo update-alternatives --config gdm3.css
With gnome-sessions installed, we can now select the desktop environment we would like to use. From the logon screen, you will see a gear Icon to the left of the Sign-In button. When clicked, a drop-down of available environments is presented.
Select the GNOME on Xorg desktop to log into your new Gnome Vanilla theme. Your selection will be saved for future logons.
Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop Selection
0. Check your laptop spec and see if it has at least 8GB of RAM. If it does, you'll probably be fine with the rest of the specs.
1. download VirtualBox
2. Install it by double-clicking and following the steps.
3. Please use this video to create a VM and install Linux. The video has no audio, just a walkthrough
you can download mini.iso from here:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
Note: if you don't see the Linux64 version, your laptop may not be configured for virtualization. In that case, you need to enable it from the BIOS. Google and follow the instructions for your laptop model on how to enable virtualization.
0. Check your laptop spec and see if it has at least 8GB of RAM. If it does, you'll probably be fine with the rest of the specs.
1. download VirtualBox
2. Install it by double-clicking and following the steps.
3. Please use this video to create a VM and install Linux. The video has no audio, just a walkthrough
you can download mini.iso from here:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
Note: if you don't see the Linux64 version, your laptop may not be configured for virtualization. In that case, you need to enable it from the BIOS. Google and follow the instructions for your laptop model on how to enable virtualization.