Question
What is my root password?
Hello, I followed This Tutorial to create a new droplet using a SSH key. Everything went just fine, I followed everything it was said to the risk. But when I try to connect, it asks for my root password. The problem is that I didn’t receive a root password via e-mail. The only e-mail I received was just suggesting me some tutorials to installs nginx and stuff like that. What should I do now? Please help.
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Hi @renatov, as you created a Droplet using the SSH key you’ll have to use the key to login. On that article you’ve linked, read below the Setting Up an SSH Session with SSH Keys in PuTTY section. Once logged in you can use the
passwdcommand to set a root password.Thank you, jesin. You were right. My problem was actually on the SSH connection, the private key wasn’t set right. But now everything is fine, I was able to connect to the server using SSH private key with no root password and after that I could set a password for root using
passwdcommand. Thanks for your attention!