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