Setting up a FriendshipCoin Masternode on Ubuntu 16.04

This guide will walk you through setting up a Friendship Coin masternode with a non-root user account.

Login to your VPS as root

It is generally advised or required to change the root password on your new vps account from the one generated by your vps setup.

Create a new user account:

adduser masternode
# input password
gpasswd -a masternode sudo
su - masternode

If you are upgrading your masternode from an older version of FriendshipCoin make sure you stop the current running daemon friendshipcoind stop

Download and configure

wget https://github.com/friendshipCoin/friendshipcoin-core/releases/download/0.1.0/friendshipcoin-0.1.0-ubuntu.tar.gz
tar -zxvf friendshipcoin-0.1.0-ubuntu.tar.gz
cd friendshipcoin-0.1.0
chmod +x dependencies.sh && sudo ./dependencies.sh
sudo cp -a friendshipcoind /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp -a friendshipcoin-cli /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/friendshipcoind
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/friendshipcoin-cli
sudo chown -R masternode:masternode ~/.friendshipcoin

Run friendshipcoind

friendshipcoind

You should see 'FriendshipCoin server starting', now press enter to return to the shell.

Wait for your wallet to sync with latest block on explorer:

friendshipcoin-cli getinfo

"blocks" line should match latest block on https://explore.friendshipcoin.com

Generate address for the masternode

friendshipcoin-cli getaccountaddress 0

Send masternode collateral to the resulting address (exactly 14466 FSC)

Wait for 1 confirmation, generate masternode private key and save the output

friendshipcoin-cli masternode genkey

Get masternode transaction and index and save the output

friendshipcoin-cli masternode outputs

Here is an example:

{ "60835a7d867d335434925c32f38902268e131e99a5821557d3e77f8ca3829fd8" : "0"}

Stop friendshipcoind

friendshipcoin-cli stop

Edit friendshipcoin.conf with your masternode information

nano ~/.friendshipcoin/friendshipcoin.conf
# add these lines:  
masternode=1
masternodeprivkey=<your masternode private key>
# save (ctrl + o) and exit (ctrl + x)

In the same directory create masternode.conf, needed for hot/cold wallet:

nano ~/.friendshipcoin/masternode.conf
# use this format:  
<masternode alias> <masternode IP>:58008 <masternode private key> <masternode transaction> <MN transaction
index>

Example:

MN01 54.134.163.173:58008 88kPFWmNAdNTcXuHRRWDCUXGEnQkwZvddsrDAANWtz662nCAotr 60835a7d867d335434925c32f38902268e131e99a5821557d3e77f8ca3829fd8 0

It should all be one line, and masternode alias can be whatever you want.

Restart the daemon and launch masternode

friendshipcoind
friendshipcoin-cli masternode start

Verify the masternode is enabled

friendshipcoind masternode status

Status line should read 1.

Securing your VPS (Optional but recommended)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install ufw
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw limit ssh/tcp
sudo ufw allow 58008/tcp
sudo ufw allow 58009/tcp
sudo ufw default allow outgoing
sudo ufw enable

Thanks to david987 and Lobin!