Question
Root Password Not Working Unable to Log into VPS to give user root right
- Posted on September 4, 2013
Asked by judy.ngai1228
I am going through this tutorial
https://coderwall.com/p/yz8cha
I keep on getting “permission denied” when I try to ssh into my root ip address.
I am as far in the tutorial to cap deploy:setup
when I do this
I am getting this
judy is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. ** [out :: 192.241.241.204] command finished in 3716ms failed: “sh -c ‘sudo -p ‘\’‘sudo password: ‘\’’ ln -nfs /home/judy/apps/lintong/current/config/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/lintong’” on 192.241.241.204
I need to ssh into my root vps inorder to give my user ‘judy’ sudo right so I can deploy… I am using the password emailed to me but keep on getting ‘permission denied’.
how do I recover this password to make sure its the same password?
I asked this question on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18623440/user-is-not-in-the-sudoers-file-this-incident-will-be-reported-cap-deploysetu/18625148?noredirect=1#18625148
and suspects that the visudo section on the tutorial is incorrect?
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“I needed to add the root user to the AllowUsers line along with the others to be able to ssh into the server as root” <br>I just went through the same process. The root password was accepted using the droplet access panel but not using putty. Was working ok yesterday but not today but at least able to use root again
I needed to add the root user to the AllowUsers line along with the others to be able to ssh into the server as root. Dont know if this is the right way, but it works.