I am setting up an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS for Wordpress and have rebuilt my Droplet. I am now trying to SSH into the droplet and need to have a new password to do so. However, it was scrubbed in the rebuild.
How do I create a new SSH root log in password?
Thank you.
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