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ben@commonwealthmn.com

Posted on April 24, 2014

I have tried and tried and tried to login as root using the password provided by DigitalOcean, but am unsuccessful. Now I locked myself out of SSH and I need to use the console to fix the problem.



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Do a Root Password Reset from the control panel

@marinos that doesn’t work

Try to contact support

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