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I’ve bought a bare metal server and I was provided with a non-root user to log in.

I’ve tried enabling the root with sudo passwd root and changing the password and after I used sudo passwd -u root but I still get invalid username/password when I try logging in.

It never happened to me before and I can’t figure out how to get access to root.

Robert Bant
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By default root user is not enabled in Ubuntu. To Enable root user you should first login by root user and set a password in terminal for root user.

user@computerName:`$ sudo bash

[sudo] password for user: Enter you current user password

root@computerName:/home/user# passwd

New password: Enter your root new password

Now every time you open terminal, type su command to login as root user:

user@computerName:`$ su root

Password: Enter root user password

root@computerName:/home/user# passwd

UserMat
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  • write :
    sudo su it will ask for your password type it and then you will be working as a root, pay attenti
Khimya
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