Issues with root password

[Cole]

Hey, so basically I bought a dedi from a company and they gave me the account "root1" which has sudo privileges.

After trying to set the root password with the following commands, it just doesn't let me in root and says that the password is invalid.

sudo bash
sudo -i
passwd
passwd root
tried all with sudo, sudo -i, etc.

Any ideas why this might not be working?

Discord - Cole#3895

Cheers

 

[1337]

Hey, so basically I bought a dedi from a company and they gave me the account "root1" which has sudo privileges.

After trying to set the root password with the following commands, it just doesn't let me in root and says that the password is invalid.

sudo bash
sudo -i
passwd
passwd root
tried all with sudo, sudo -i, etc.

Any ideas why this might not be working?

Discord - Cole#3895

Cheers

Add me on discord, david#0101

 

[Arik]

What OS are you using? Some OS's disable root login by default.[DOUBLEPOST=1551383674][/DOUBLEPOST]Id be able to fix this for you for free.

 

[Cole]

What OS are you using? Some OS's disable root login by default.[DOUBLEPOST=1551383674][/DOUBLEPOST]Id be able to fix this for you for free.

Ubuntu 16.04

 

[Arik]

Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu has root disabled as default. Please DM me on discord Arik#5451 and I will help you fix this.

 

[Cole]

Ubuntu has root disabled as default. Please DM me on discord Arik#5451 and I will help you fix this.

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[Arik]

I have resolved this issue for the user.