Add a New User AccountĬreate a new user account with the adduser command.

The first thing you need to do as root after launching your server is to set up a non-root user with sudo access. Performing server administration as a non-root user is a best practice for maintaining security. In case you don’t take proper precautions, you could end up causing harm to your system by being logged in as root. The protocol uses an unofficially named proprietary technology called Chromoting.įor this scenario, it is recommended that you use an Ubuntu 20.04 server with a minimum of 2GB of RAM. Also a non-root sudo user. Google Chrome Remote Desktop is a tool for remote access to computers.

The objective of this tutorial is to install the Xfce desktop environment and to install Chrome Remote Desktop on an Ubuntu 20.04 headless server and access it via Google Chrome.