how to have a running desktop accessible with x2goserver on a VPS?

• open a terminal via ssh root 

• ssh root@xx.xx.xx.xx 

• adduser username

• usermod -aG sudo username

• vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

• change sshd_config as follow: 

• Port 443

• PermitRootLogin no

• StrictModes yes

• PasswordAuthentication yes

• PermitEmptyPasswords no

• ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

• UsePAM yes

• X11Forwarding yes

• AllowUsers username@xx.xx.xx.xx lucyliu@xx.xx.xx.xx

• /etc/init.d/ssh restart 

• connect with new user

• ssh username@xx.xx.xx.xx -p 443

• install MATE

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

• sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop


• install x2goserver 

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

    https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goserver