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How to enable ssh root access in Ubuntu
This is not recommended for security reasons but in some cases can be useful to temporarily enable it Edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Netplan – Set a static IP
From Ubuntu 18+ netplan is the embedded configurator tool for the server edition. When there is not carrier, even if correctly set from a syntax perspective in yaml netplan config file, the network interface will not show an IP address.
OpenVPN Server – AWS EC2
Elastic Cloud Instances are on demand virtual machines wtih pre-configured OS images. Some types of them are free of charge the first year such as the T2.micro (1vCPU, 1GB of RAM etc.) The first step is to create a AWS account and link a payment method.
VPN Router (Road Warrior)
A machine in the middle between a VPN server and a Local Network, acting as a client for the VPN server (on the external interface) and as a Router for the Local Network (on the internal interface) is known as “Road Warrior”.