🔒Creating a root login access

Some server providers will give you log in details that lead to a home/username folder on the server, and they will disable root login by default for security.

Since the auto-installer in this guide works better if your working folder is root, here is how you can solve.

Login to your server with username and password you are being given. If the username is nor root, then you will likely be in home/username after logging in

switch to root

sudo su

create a password for the root user

sudo passwd root

paste the password by right clicking the mouse and click ENTER (you won't see the password in the terminal). You will be asked to enter it a second time.

Now, permit login for root and restart the ssh service, this command does everything in one step

sudo sed -i 's/#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config && sudo service ssh restart

If you prefer to proceed step by step

Open the /etc/ssh/sshd_config

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Edit the file line #PermitRootLogin and change it to PermitRootLogin yes

To save press CTRL+X, then Y, then ENTER

sudo service ssh restart

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