SSH - I need help :D Please see if you know lol

I have just got myself a dedicated server but no absolutely nothing

I figured out I can browse my root with SFTP instead of completely learning and screwing with SSH.

There are 2 things I really just wanna be told how to do now as I once this is done I am set up and can learn it all later.

How do I remotely download something onto the sever? So I dont have to dl it then upload it.

And I forgot the other thing lol....

Wen I think of it ill post it but if anyone can just tell me how to do that... it would be great

 

can you try if wget url works?

 

You don't have any kind of control panel installed? You should get used to SSH...

 

I have lxadmin but that doesnt go to root. So I have been using SFTP with filezilla to go through the directories. But I cant run crap there so I have to use that putty or watever its called.


THE OTHER THING:


How do I change my root password via SSH??

 

Get management of some sort. Your server is quickly going to get rooted and exploited if you don't know what you're doing.

 

Yea AT THE VERY LEAST INSTALL WEBMIN:

To change root you need to SSH into the server with PUTTY, you said you are this lxadmin user so to change the root password you need to do this

su -
Password: <type current root password here>

then type

password root
password:
password again:

this will change the password, but again you NEED to install a web configuration management app if you don't know how to configure your server. Start here:
http://www.webmin.com/

 

There's nothing like getting your box pwned to help you learn Unix.

Stay with SSH and learn whatever you can. If your box gets hacked, find out how they did it then re-install from scratch and restore your data from backups... then fix whatever exploit they used.

If you use a control panel, you'll never learn anything. Sure, you'll probably have a more stable, more secure website but that will be because you won't make mistakes. Mistakes are how you learn.

 

Are u sure that lxadmin doesn't allow root access? I have lxadmin in one vps and i can manage all the files (root level) of the vps.

 

root access of a vps is not root. If you had access to root of the vps you could screw with the other VPSs on the server.

 

read up on linux/unix books, get a feel of the command line since you're now using ssh.

To change your password, try 'passwd'

 

Yea, you will definitely want to become familiar with the shell.. Just take your time and learn a command at a time..

First login to root and cd into a few directories and look around a bit, just to get a little more comfortable in the shell.

With shell you can install things from the source with one command.

sudo apt get <nameofpackagefile>

Boulder

 

I rekon im going to changed to a fully managed server.

I dont know enough yet to do this by myself lol.

Thnx for ur help all

 

?? I mean the root of the vps not the main server (the one who contains the vps), the main server has it own root and the vps has another

 

I am recommending you some of the resources where you must learn. Before you do anything, download putty (SSH client), enter IP address of your server with passwd and connect to your sever to issue SSH commands.

1. Top 10 Useful Linux Commands and Important SSH commands
2. Learn configuring your server with tutorials from webhostgear.com
3. Protect your server by installing a firewall. Dont leave your server open without firewall. see this
4. Install a server control panel like Webmin or Plesk or Cpanel or Directadmin.
4. Install LAMP (linux, apache,mysql,php) in your server. see this

And finally, the most important command.

to download any new linux software from the web. This should help you to take off!

 

Very good tips here.

I can also recommend a freeware application called WinSCP, It allows you to download / upload / edit files on your server without the hassles of console commands, Also as other people suggested there is a variety of easy-to-use control panels out there.

 

That called SFTP. My ftp client (filezilla also does this) but it does not allow you to execute programs and commands so I have to use putty aswell.

And Pwner I have a full ded svr not a VPS. You cannot access the root of a ded svr from lxadmin.

 

dont login using FTP or any other port as root, as the passwds could be intercepted. it should be SSH with port on 22. If you login to server control panel like plesk or cpanel, make sure you login as https:// as this is SSL encrypted one.

 

"How do I remotely download something onto the sever?"
If this means from you local machine to your server, using filezilla will do that.
if you mean getting say wordpress this command sould work
wget "hxxp://wordpress.org/latest.zip"

 

precisely! try it. you wont know unless you experiment with the server.

 

na I meant remotely from like te net to my svr. I found that a while ago took me a bit to realise it dled it the folder I was in lol but I eventually got it