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"Access denied" when logging into root?

Posted on September 3, 2017

When I typed in the password I got in my email it told me to make a new password then when I clicked enter is closed so I opend putty to log back it the console popped up and I put in root as the password and then I typed in my new password and it just said “Access denied”. I reset my root password and Im still getting the same issue…



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