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#8
Originally Posted by lma View Post
There is no default root password (the root account is disabled out of the box). If you set one by running "passwd root" (as root) then that should work for ssh access. Just to make sure that the passwd change takes effect, run "grep root /etc/passwd" before and after the passwd command (the output should be different).
When I run "grep root /etc/passwd" before and after the passwd command (run in root shell) i get output that looks like "root:IOWE9827mp28fJI:0:0:root:/root:bash" and the encrypted stuff dose change after I change the password using passwd, but I still get permission denied when I run "ssh root@localhost" with the new password.