Server Initialization

Overview
At the end of this section, you should have the server initialized with a user user, and the root (or other sudo) user removed.
Prerequisites 
All Prerequisities completed
​DNS Setup completed
User credentials in LastPass
Currently you should have root (or root like) user access to your server. Ansible will later create a Linux user on your server (with default username user).
Automatically
Ansible can generate Linux user password and save user credentials to LastPass automatically - in this case you can skip to the next section, portal-setup-initial.
Setting user credentials manually (optional)
If you prefer to manually create the login information, you can do so.
In your LastPass account, you will then need to create an entry for the server as seen below. Updating <server name> with the name of your server, i.e. us-west, and domain with your domain, i.e. siasky.net. Ansible will pull this information from LastPass in order to create the user user on the server with the provided password. 
If you are setting up a single server portal you can leave out the server name and just use your domain as you did in the DNS Setup.
This LastPass entry is what is used to create the user profile on the server.  Set the Site password to a strong password, like one generated from https://passwordsgenerator.net/.
Example:
Ansible
Prepare your local machine for running ansible by following the setup requirements here.
Portal Setup Initial
To set up the portal, you will need to run the portals-setup-initial.sh ansible script. At this point you should have all the prerequisites complete except for:
Logging in to LastPass with the lastpass-login.sh script
Check if you need to set any values in my-vars/config.yml
Adding your server to your hosts.ini file
After successfully running the portals-setup-initial.sh script you are ready to continue on to the Single Portal Setup.

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Overview

Prerequisites

User credentials in LastPass

Ansible

Portal Setup Initial