Currently when I login to SSH the name is root@my-initial-droplet-name, how to change it to root@new-droplet-name?
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root@ ssh key pair some place safe.ssh-keygen - (keep it to a different place to your root keys).mrwww.root. sudo or doas are god for this.
echo 'mrwww ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers .pub from the new key pair into ~mrwww/.ssh/authorized_keys, and chmod 0400 it.ssh -i /path/to/new-id_rsa mrwww@yourdropletsudo touch /tmp/whatls -l /tmp/what # this should show the file created by root.Hi, thanks for answering, but it seems your guide is to create new user, what I want is changing the name after @ on SSH command line, from root@my-initial-droplet-name to root@new-droplet-name.
Changing droplet name doesn’t change this SSH address. I already deleted the login detail on my winscp and recreate it, but doesn’t change anything either. Thanks
Ha. It sure is.
You need to register a domain, delegate it to DO and then set it up under Networking > Domains.
There are proper answers from a staffer on this other thread
Hi, I already did that months ago, the site is working fine, but on the SSH command line it still root@ubuntu-512mb-nyc3-06, it won’t change to root@new-droplet-name or root@example.com
It seems my situation isn’t normal, I don’t know where I did it wrong.
I found an answer, it’s called hostname, to change it edit hostname and host file at /etc/ and restart. Thanks, resolved.
For most distros you will use hostnamectl on the command line.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hostnamectl.html
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/hostnamectl.1.html