After deploying a new Velocity SSD VPS, it's recommended to create a new user account with sudo privileges. This is preferred method instead enabling root login via SSH. A user with full sudo privileges will be able to execute all commands as root.
- Login to the Entity Data Client Area -> Services -> Select your Velocity SSD VPS
- Click "NoVNC Console" to access the console.
- Login with username root and the root password as chosen during the ordering process.
- Add your new user account, i.e:
useradd bob
passwd bob - Grant the user full sudo permissions by first opening the Sudoers file:
visudo - Add the new user, in this case bob with full permissions:
bob ALL=(ALL) ALL - Save and exit (i.e. :wq)
- You can now login via SSH with the new user. You then gain root privileges with this command:
sudo su - root