Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Stephen M smelheim85 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 14:43:32 MST 2014


Keith,

I haven't played allot with RHEL flavors very much but.  If I remember
correctly, to create a new user on a RHEL system you us useradd while in
Debian/Ubuntu you use adduser and the home directory is setup for you.
Such servers like Apache or SSH are not installed from the beginning.

But since I've only used the desktop version that might be different if you
are using the server addition.  So your build is correct it's just that in
the main two families of Linux, e.g. RHEL vs Debian.  There are going to be
differences in 'some' commands.  As for packages I would image it's a
difference from desktop vs server, if not then its the same as the commands.

Hope this at least answers some of your questions.  Allow be prepared for
some packages you used in RHEL not to have or hard to find dpkg packages.

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I decided to move to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after 7 years with RHEL/CentOS.  I'm
> very used to RHEL and am experiencing an adjustment with this move.
>
> With RHEL I would add a user and use that user as the docroot
> (/home/username/public_html) for the associated vhost.  This would give ssh
> access (after adding to the sshd_config) and sftp access.
>
> When I add a user to Ubuntu it does not create a home directory.
>
> When I did the install I selected LAMP,DNS, and mail servers.
>
> I was not able to shell into the server and found SSH had not been
> installed.  I was surprised.  I installed SSHD and now I can access the box
> via the shell.
>
> I'm starting to get the feeling I am approaching this build incorrectly.
>
> I want to build 1 box that handles LAMP+DNS+Mail
> (Postfix+Dovecot+Spamassassin+MySql) Looks like the install did a lot of
> the heavy lifting by instating and configuring everything.
>
> So my main question is, am I going about this correctly or am I not
> understanding the difference between Ubuntu and RHEL?
>
> Thanks a bunch!!
>
> Keith
>
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