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Why I haven't received an email with username & password to login with putty?

Posted on March 29, 2018

About 30 minutes ago I created a droplet but I can’t login using putty because I’ve not received the email containing required info. What should I do?



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Heya,

You’ll need to reset your root password first, you can check how to do that here

https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/how-do-i-reset-my-droplets-root-password/

Additionally, you can use the Droplet Web Console:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/connect-with-console/

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