Hello. I use four droplets which are all Debian. My all droplets have account that name is debian.
I accessed the passwd file.
debian:x:1000:1000:Cloud-init-user,,,:/home/debian:/bin/bash
May I change password of debian account? I’m worry about malfunction regarding on Cloud-init-user.
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Yes
sudo will sign in with the “debian” account or any other account that has root privileges - ie… sudo.
sudo passwd
this will prompt you for the current password.
if you’re looking to add a user with root privileges…
sudo adduser USERNAME && sudo usermod -aG USERNAME sudo USERNAME
This will add a user prompting you to answer a few questions and then add them to the sudo group.
As far as cloud-init goes that I am unsure of. Does it work from SSH-KEY? so no passwd needed. I would spin up a dummy droplet and test it out just to see.
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