{"id":1255,"date":"2017-03-26T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2017-03-26T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:58:34","slug":"ubuntu-16-04-server-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2017\/03\/26\/ubuntu-16-04-server-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 16.04 Server Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&lt;![CDATA[Okay, I am am a rogue. \u00a0My instructions are for those admins that want to use Ubuntu 16.04 as a server, but want to be able to use root when I want and the GUI when I want. \u00a0Both of these are not recommended, but in the first sentence I did say I was a rogue. \u00a0For the following, italics items are command line commands that can be copied directly into the terminal.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Install Ubuntu 16.04 desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Logon as your admin user.<\/li>\n<li>Open a Terminal.<\/li>\n<li>Enable root access.\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sudo -i passwd root<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sudo passwd -u root<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Enable command line login.\n<ul>\n<li><em>gpedit \/etc\/default\/grub<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Change appropriate lines to\n<ul>\n<li>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&#8221;text&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=&#8221;text&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>GRUB_TERMINAL=console<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sudo update-grub<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>shutdown -r now<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You will now be starting into command line like a normal server. \u00a0This minimizes background processes and maximizes server utilizaiton. \u00a0But you might want to use the GUI. \u00a0So logon and&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li><em>startx<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You will need a new terminal window to start unity by right clicking and starting a terminal, then.<\/li>\n<li><em>setsid unity<\/em><\/li>\n<li>To log out you can use the collowing command.<\/li>\n<li><em>gnome-session-quit<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>]]&gt;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;![CDATA[Okay, I am am a rogue. \u00a0My instructions are for those admins that want to use Ubuntu 16.04 as a server, but want to be able to use root when I want and the GUI when I want. \u00a0Both of these are not recommended, but in the first sentence I did say I was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2017\/03\/26\/ubuntu-16-04-server-setup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubuntu 16.04 Server Setup<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}