Question
Does Resetting Root User Password Affect Sudo Users?
- Posted on February 9, 2021
- Ubuntu 18.04Nginx
Asked by avebury
I am currently able to login a sudo user via the console on our Droplet. However, I am unable to login as root. Should I go through the root user password reset process? If I do that, will that affect the login for the sudo user?
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Hello, @avebury
As per Bobby’s reply resetting the root username password for your droplet wont affect the other users.
If you want to reset the droplet root password you can follow this article:
Regards, Alex
Hi there @avebury,
Resetting the root password will not affect your other users.
If you want to reset your sudo user password, you could use the
passwdcommand followed by the username that you want to reset the password for:Hope that this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards, Bobby