How to Use a GUI with Ubuntu Linux on AWS EC2
This video’s goal is to show you how to use a Microsoft RDP client to securely connect to an Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2, so we can have a GUI for the Ubuntu instance.
1. Configure Free Tier Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2
2. Connect to Ubuntu instance via SSH with PuTTY
3. Add GUI options to Ubuntu
4. Configure PuTTY to Tunnel RDP traffic
5. Test with RDP
*Link referenced:
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/connect-to-linux-desktop-from-windows/
NOTE: The link above now returns a 404 error. Here are the commands that were copied from the link:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo sed -i ‘s/^PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/’ /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
sudo passwd ubuntu
sudo apt install xrdp xfce4 xfce4-goodies tightvncserver
echo xfce4-session$ /home/ubuntu/.xsession ##### NOTE: Replace the $ with the Greater Than Sign
sudo cp /home/ubuntu/.xsession /etc/skel
sudo sed -i ‘0,/-1/s//ask-1/’ /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo service xrdp restart
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