Yesterday, I update my cPanel version on my droplet. After update, it says that I have to enable cpHulk. So, I enable it, with a bunch of config that I don’t event understand. The thing that I remember that I disabled root login trough WHM and SSH. I don’t have any other login except root for WHM and SSH.
I did some tutorial that I found:
- I reset the root password at DigitalOcean dashboard, and I try to login SSH which is not working.
- I reset password and login to WHM, also not working.
- I tried to boot from recovery ISO and enable SSH root login, also not working.
And my question: How to enable root login and password authentication trough recovery web console?
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What exact steps did you follow to enable SSH root login? What settings did you change?
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Hi @unixynet,
I solved this issue, if you have same problem, please refer to this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53651064/how-to-enable-root-login-and-password-authentication-trough-recovery-web-console?noredirect=1#comment94160730_53651064
Hello all,
You can also temporary enable the PasswordAuthentication from no to yes in order to access your droplet using a password and then once you’ve entered your key to disable the PasswordAuthentication again. This way is considered more secure than uploading the key to a Dropbox in case you don’t have any other server to us.
- Log in to the console on the DigitalOcean website.
- Type sudo nano
/etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change PasswordAuthentication from “no” to “yes” and save the file
- Open a terminal on your computer and type
ssh username@[hostname or IP address]or if on a Windows box use PuTTY for password login making sure authentication parameters aren’t pointing to a private key - Login with a password
- Type sudo nano
~/.ssh/authorized_keys - Paste public key text here and save the file
- Type sudo nano
/etc/ssh/sshd_config - Change PasswordAuthentication from “yes” to “no” and save the file
- Log out and attempt to log back in (if using PuTTY make sure you set up auth parameters to point to your private key)
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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