If you are having cloud instances, that provide you key files (pem/ppk) to login to your instances/servers, this post is suitable to you.
In this case, for security purposes, providers don’t allow users to login with root password but yet for some circumstances, if you want to set root password, follow below-mentioned steps.
1. Log into your instance/server through provided pem/ppk file. 2. fire below mentioned command
sudo su
3. Change below-mentioned file with mentioned content
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
4. save file and do
service ssh restart
5. now, let’s set root user’s password 6. First verify you are in root user
whoami # if it's root
passwd # it will ask you to type password, enter it 2 times and your password is setup.
Finally, try to login with root credentials and see if it works. If you face any issues, feel free to comment below
