Root Password Not Working Unable to Log into VPS to give user root right

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?