By 212nath
I’m having issues with logging in via SSH with Putty. I have tried resetting the root password, and a new password has been sent to my email address. However, when I try to login with “root” and the password, it says it is incorrect.
Is there anything I am doing wrong here? I’m currently using Ubuntu instead of Windows with Putty, so maybe pasting in the password doesn’t work or something?
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Same problem this morning. I have a feeling it’s because I disabled password based logins in my provision script… On the plus side I build it with a provision script so it’s dad trivial to spin the whole stack back up.
Same problem - root was working a few months ago now it’s not. I tried reset via email twice, neither password worked. Also tried rebooting. Can’t get in.
Have you disabled root/password login? Try logging in through the Remote Console, does that work?
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