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How can I find my SFTP username and password ?

Posted on September 26, 2018

How can I found sftp user and password ? I am biginer in digital ocean I want retrive and change my ftp password. Is there any way to change the ftp user and password.



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You’ll need to login as root and then use the passwd command to change your SFTP user’s password. So if your user name is sftp_user, do this:

passwd sftp_user

Then follow the password reset prompt.

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