Hello friend!

Great question. I believe Laravel Forge disables root password login when their system provisions a droplet. You may try “su” from the forge user. If their provisioning configuration allows, that would elevate you to root (it might ask for a password for the forge user, can be reset with command “passwd”). If that does not work, your only recourse is to use our web console to log in with root password and re-enable password login for the root account by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

Kind Regards,
Jarland

Please give more details of what operating system you set up.

Also if your user has sudo permission, you can run the following command:
sudo su -

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com