I have made extensive research about how to setup and secure correctly our new VPS with a Ubuntu 22.04 OS for three weeks, and I have currently a good idea of what has to be done.
However, I would like to build a bash script to make all these numerous and complex tasks automatically with a global script and sub-scripts by subject.
For example, the global script VPS_Setup.sh will launch successively the sub-scripts below:
- VPS_Setup_01_Update_OS.sh
- VPS_Setup_02_Create_New_Sudo_Group.sh
- VPS_Setup_03_Create_New_Sudo_User.sh
- VPS_Setup_04_Adjust_Timezone.sh
- VPS_Setup_05_Adjust_Swapfile.sh
...
Inside VPS_Setup_01_Update_OS.sh, i have simply write the following commands:
apt update -y
apt upgrade -y
apt autoremove -y
apt autoclean -y
After many attempts mainly based on these sources:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/305035/how-to-use-ssh-to-run-a-local-shell-script-on-a-remote-machine
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87405/how-can-i-execute-local-script-on-remote-machine-and-include-arguments
- How do I run a local bash script on remote machines via ssh?
I'm launching sub-scripts from the global script by this way:
SSHPASS='mypassword' sshpass -e ssh -tt -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@XX.XX.XX.XX 'bash -s' < ./VPS_Setup_01_Update_OS.sh
The sub-script is launched, and I receive no error messages.
However, only the first command is executed.
Then, it stops and display the command prompt.
Here is what is displayed:
Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.2.0 x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage
Last login: Thu Feb 9 19:54:37 2023 from XX.XX.XX.XX
root@XXXXXX:~# apt update -y
apt upgrade -y
apt autoremove -y
apt autoclean -y
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@XXXXXX:~#
This is strange, as the script displays the four commands before executing only the first one.
Additionally, if I try to execute another command manually from the root prompt, nothing happens, until I press ^C.
Then, it returns to my local prompt.
I've also tried the second way : executing commands directly from the global script, by this way:
SSHPASS='mypassword' sshpass -e ssh -tt -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@XX.XX.XX.XX <<ENDSSH1
apt update -y
apt upgrade -y
apt autoremove -y
apt autoclean -y
ENDSSH1
Exactly same result!
Question 1: What am I doing wrong and how should I proceed ?
Question 2: Do you know a place where I could find this kind of scripts, that I could adapt to our needs ? I've searched for, but didn't find anything...
