Setting root password for the first time and login as root in linux
If you are trying to login with root for the first time from user's account, you will need to set password first. In order to do that
sudo passwd root # Enter password # Re-enter password
Simply adding a password for root is not enough, you'll also need to edit `sshd_config`, and set PermitRootLogin from prohibit-password to yes:
vi etc/ssh/sshd_config
# Authentication: LoginGraceTime 120 # PermitRootLogin prohibit-password PermitRootLogin yes StrictModes yes
Now restarting ssh service
systemctl restart sshd
and voilà it's done.
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