Sudo user password invalid - in most of the droplets I manage

Posted May 19, 2016
DigitalOcean

This is a strange/highly critical issue, for some reason in all my droplets, the password for the sudo user is reset and I couldn’t execute any command with sudo privileges. How can I reset the password for the sudo user?. And also I’ve disabled root login. Could any one help me on this? This is really a serious issue and this seems to have been reset some time in the last one week, previously it was fine

rajacts

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Bill C • May 21, 2016

what is the exact error message you are getting?

You might have to boot using the “Recovery” kernel and either enable root or create a user with sudo access. Or give your current user sudo access.

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