The following guide assumes that you have a fresh installation of a Linux operating system with root access, or an account with sudo permissions.
This guide's steps have been validated on the following Linux server distributions:
- Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
- Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
- Debian 9 64-bit
DO NOT INSTALL AND RUN A SECURE/SUPER NODE UNDER THE ROOT USER. The guide details how to add a non-root user, under which the necessary processes will run.