Changed username root, cannot connect via SSH anymore

March 12, 2016 3.6k

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tomootes

Hi serverpeople :)

I did the stupidest thing ever, i changed my passwd file unconsciously and changed my root username. Now it looks like this:

]root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Is there anyway to recover the root user? SSH'ing gives an permission denied right now.

The OS that im running: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-57-generic x86_64) (LAMPP)

Thanks!

Tom

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Woet March 12, 2016

Try the console in your DigitalOcean panel.

tomootes March 12, 2016

Thanks for your suggestion, sadly when i try to login with ']root' and my password, the terminal gives me 'login incorrect'.
- Woet March 12, 2016
  
  Try logging in with "root". If that doesn't work, try changing the password through the panel.
  
  tomootes March 12, 2016
  
  Tried it, used root and the new password. Still it says 'login incorrect'. Logging on using other users works fine though..
  
  Woet March 12, 2016
  
  And none of those users are sudo? If so, open a ticket and ask for recovery.

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