Droplet

Procedure

Initial Setup of Droplet

Create droplet via Digital Ocean page

Follow instructions to log into droplet as root

Add non-root user account and set the password for it:

useradd -m charles
passwd charles

Give non-root user account sudo abilities

• add to root group: usermod -G root charles
• make sudoer: sudo adduser charles sudo

Log in as non-root user in separate window, test sudo abilities:

• sudo -; whoami

Disable non-root login

• sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• change PermitRootLogin yes to PermitRootLogin no

Log in from another window (just in case)

Ubuntu 12:

Restart ssh: /etc/init.d/sshd restart

Ubuntu 14:

Restart ssh: sudo service ssh restart

Change user shell using sudo usermod -s /bin/bash charles

Prep Aptitude

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y python python-setuptools python-dev python-pip
sudo apt-get install -y wget 
sudo apt-get install -y unzip
sudo apt-get -y autoremove

Python

see Ubuntu_Python page