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How to harden Google Cloud VM running RStudio Server on Ubuntu 22.04?

I am running RStudio Server on a VM on GCP. I followed the instructions here and used the example configuration with as many of the options as would work for the open-source edition. (Well other than ...
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How do I stop chrome remote desktop on Unix or prevent it running on startup?

I have an Ubuntu 20 VM on Google Cloud Platform. Mostly, I only need to SSH into the VM. However, very occasionally, I need to use a desktop environment. I am not particularly skilled with Unix. I ...
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No turbo boost on GCP N1 servers using Ubuntu 18.04

I have created a GCP machine with 12 cores, using the "N1 Series". Using lscpu, the CPU appears to be an Intel Xeon E5 v3 (Haswell) @ 2.30GHz. According to the GCP documentation, these cores ...
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Google Compute Engine: doing chmod -R 777 /home/user blocks SSH access?

I am trying to setup multiple users on a Google Cloud Instance running Ubuntu 18.04. One of the steps I do, sudo chmod -R 777 /home/user blocks future ssh connexions to the instance, with message: ...
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fix sudo access on Google Cloud Ubuntu 18 instance

I edited /etc/sudoers.d/google_sudoers and /etc/sudoers.d/90-cloud-init-users to remove password free sudo access. I use SSH access keys to log in and (apparently) I don't know the login password. ...
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How to configure Gnome 3 on Ubuntu-19.04 Virtual Machine running on my Google Cloud Platform?

I am able to follow these links to configure Gnome 2 onto my VM in GCP successfully. Installing and configuring Ubuntu Desktop for Google Cloud Platform Graphical user interface (GUI) for Google ...
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Google Cloud Platform Change Ubuntu Kernel to generic

It is possible to change google cloud vm kernel? I created Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS with kernel GNU/Linux 4.15.0-1030-gcp x86_64 machine. I downloaded 4.4.0-146-generic I tried to change the /etc/...
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