Tutorial
[Video] How To Set Up Sudo and SSH Keys on Ubuntu 14.04
![[Video] How To Set Up Sudo and SSH Keys on Ubuntu 14.04](/_next/static/media/intro-to-cloud.d49bc5f7.jpeg "[Video] How To Set Up Sudo and SSH Keys on Ubuntu 14.04")
This tutorial screencast will show you how to set up a non-root superuser account (sudo) and SSH key authentication on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. Following these steps can improve the security of your server, and is recommended for all Linux servers.
A written tutorial on the same topic can be found here
Thanks for learning with the DigitalOcean Community. Check out our offerings for compute, storage, networking, and managed databases.
author
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
Get our biweekly newsletter
Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.
Hollie's Hub for Good
Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We'd like to help.
Become a contributor
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
