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Does Resetting Root User Password Affect Sudo Users?

Posted February 9, 2021 115 views
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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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bobbyiliev February 9, 2021

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 passwd command followed by the username that you want to reset the password for:

passwd your_username_here

Hope that this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,
Bobby

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alexdo February 11, 2021

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:

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/resources/reset-root-password/

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/resources/console/

Regards,
Alex

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