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[Video] How To Set Up Sudo and SSH Keys on Ubuntu 14.04

Published on February 10, 2016
[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

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