By rajacts
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
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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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