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So I just got a server back for a computer repair shop and I have always used windows for everything and I always here that ubuntu is better for servers so I told them to load it up. Now when I got the server home it said."ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ubuntu tty2 ubuntu login" i have looged and tried things and how do i make an account or how do i find out what the information is to login?

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    Ask the guy who set up your machine for the username and password he set up. And if you are not familiar with the terminal command-line-interface, you should better install a desktop environment like XFCE.
    – Byte Commander
    Feb 21, 2015 at 18:51
  • The computer repair shop should have given you the username and password.. It is also worth noting that Ubuntu server, by default anyway, does not come with a GUI (although they can be installed).
    – Seth
    Feb 21, 2015 at 18:51

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During installation someone provided the system with a user name and a password after setting up the partitions. You need those. It is possible to retrieve the user name by booting up into recovery mode (see the link) and checking doing a ls /home. The username is shown as a directory. sudo passwd {username} will let you set a new password. After you do exit it will reboot and you can use both to login.

After you use username and passsword to log in to the system you will see a prompt ($) where you can type commands to install services you want to use on your system.

By the way: if you want an EASIER life I would suggest installing a DESKTOP version. Ubuntu does not use a different system for server and desktop anymore; the desktop will have you suffer a bit of a performance hit but the graphical tools you can use make up for it bigtime. You can use tasksel below to install a desktop or just type sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop or any of the other desktops.

If you want to use the system to host a website you would install a lamp-server with:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

That will install and configure apache, mysql and php. "sudo" will ask for your password by the way.

If you want to install just MySQL so you can use a database ...

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

There are similar services for a mailserver, fileserver. If you want an overview of these services install tasksel with

sudo apt-get install tasksel

and type tasksel on command line. It will list all the available options:

u server    Basic Ubuntu server
u openssh-server    OpenSSH server
u dns-server    DNS server
u lamp-server   LAMP server
u mail-server   Mail server
u postgresql-server PostgreSQL database
i print-server  Print server
u samba-server  Samba file server
u tomcat-server Tomcat Java server
u cloud-image   Ubuntu Cloud Image (instance)
u virt-host Virtual Machine host
u ubuntustudio-graphics 2D/3D creation and editing suite
u ubuntustudio-audio    Audio recording and editing suite
u edubuntu-desktop-gnome    Edubuntu desktop
u kubuntu-active    Kubuntu Active
u kubuntu-desktop   Kubuntu desktop
u kubuntu-full  Kubuntu full
u ubuntustudio-font-meta    Large selection of font packages
u lubuntu-desktop   Lubuntu Desktop
u lubuntu-core  Lubuntu minimal installation
u mythbuntu-desktop Mythbuntu additional roles
u mythbuntu-frontend    Mythbuntu frontend
u mythbuntu-backend-master  Mythbuntu master backend
u mythbuntu-backend-slave   Mythbuntu slave backend
u ubuntustudio-photography  Photograph touchup and editing suite
u ubuntustudio-publishing   Publishing applications
u ubuntu-gnome-desktop  Ubuntu GNOME desktop
i ubuntu-desktop    Ubuntu desktop
i ubuntu-usb    Ubuntu desktop USB
u ubuntustudio-video    Video creation and editing suite
u xubuntu-desktop   Xubuntu desktop
u xubuntu-core  Xubuntu minimal installation
u kubuntu-active-live   Kubuntu Active Remix live CD
u kubuntu-live  Kubuntu live CD
u lubuntu-live  Lubuntu live CD
u ubuntu-gnome-live Ubuntu GNOME live CD
u ubuntustudio-live Ubuntu Studio live CD
u ubuntustudio-dvd-live Ubuntu Studio live DVD
u ubuntu-live   Ubuntu live CD
u xubuntu-live  Xubuntu live CD
u manual    Manual package selection

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