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45 45  Ultimately, the argument for or against using root access is mostly a philosophical one, rather than a technical one. There is no right or wrong answer to this question. Rather, each answer brings its own advantages and disadvantages to the table. What really matters is what you're more comfortable with using in the end.
46 46  Moreover, using a sudoers user rather than root is not inherently a guarantee for system safety either and should not be taken as a leeway for running suspicious executable files from the internet either, as privilege escalation bugs have existed in the Linux kernel since its own inception.
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48 -= Install the necessary utilities =
49 -Install docker, postfix and nginx, which are all utilities you will be using consistently, from this point on.
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51 -Afterwards, install the certbot-plugin-gandi plugin to enable automatic certificate renewals using gandi. This may require you to install pip3 as well, first.
52 -
53 -One the plugin is installed, just do:
54 -
55 -{{code language="bash"}}
56 -certbot certonly --authenticator dns-gandi --dns-gandi-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi/gandi.ini -n -d 'transistor.one,*.transistor.one' --agree-tos --email=alexandru.pentilescu@disroot.org
57 -{{/code}}
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59 59  = Setting up an SMTP server =
60 60  This will be required for all the future things you will be doing on the server.
61 61