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Am I locked out of my server?

Posted on October 31, 2014

I created a new CentOS server, and made a mistake during the initial configuration. I created a new user and disabled roor login, but forgot to set a password for the new user before login out. Am I locked out of my server?



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you can still login as root through the web console on the control panel

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