On RHEL:
You'll download an RPM from their site:
https://posit.co/download/rstudio-server/
After installing the RPM, you can enable and start the server:
systemctl start rstudio-server
systemctl enable rstudio-server
In other environments you might be done. However, you'll want to enable netID login capability. This is done by editing /etc/pam.d/rstudio
[root@ws2501 pam.d]# cat rstudio
#%PAM-1.0
#auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
#auth required pam_unix.so nodelay
#account required pam_unix.so
auth substack system-auth
auth include postlogin
account required pam_nologin.so
account include system-auth
password include system-auth
# pam_selinux.so close should be the first session rule
session required pam_selinux.so close
session required pam_loginuid.so
session optional pam_console.so
# pam_selinux.so open should only be followed by sessions to be executed in the user context
session required pam_selinux.so open
session required pam_namespace.so
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session include system-auth
session include postlogin
-session optional pam_ck_connector.so
This is a sample that is known to work on congee.cs.rice.edu.
You will also need to add any users to the rserver group in /etc/group:
[root@ws2501 pam.d]# cat /etc/group | grep rstudio
rstudio-server:x:970:kf57,ll227,aed10
Lastly, if the server is running a firewall such as nftables, you will need something like:
[root@ws2501 etc]# grep 8787 nftables-rice.conf
tcp dport 8787 accept;
In order to access the server from a remote machine.