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+If you are using non-root user, you need to *bootstrap* your server manually, before using it with mrsk. Here is some bootstrap one-liners for popular VMs:
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+* Amazon Linux 2: `sudo yum update -y; sudo yum install -y docker curl git; sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user; sudo chkconfig docker on; sudo service docker start`
+* Ubuntu: `sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y; sudo apt install docker curl git; sudo usermod -a -G docker ubuntu` 
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 ### Using a proxy SSH host
 
 If you need to connect to server through a proxy host, you can use `ssh/proxy`: