Hi, after setting up my 14.04 linode by following most of this page

http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/

and setting a second user account, I ssh'd in as my second user account and continued setting things up.

I wanted to do 'reboot' and was told I need to be root to do that.

so I ssh'd in as root, but got 'invalid password' message.

So I reset my root password using this:

https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/ac ... -passwords "Resetting the Root Password"

I ssh in again and I am still am told 'invalid password'

Any suggestions?

Michael

Can you sudo to root from your second account? If you can then your password is OK and the issue is your ssh config

Yes! I can do

sudo su root

successfully.

I will try and figure out what's wrong with my ssh config, thanks.

Check "permitrootlogin" setting in sshd_config

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Ubuntu 14.04 by default only allows root logins with ssh keys as sweh said check PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config it will be set to without-password

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Our image allows root login with password over SSH. But following that guide involves setting PermitRootLogin to "no":

Hey. I'm having the same troubles as Mazz, except for I have no second user. I've followed the https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/ac ... -passwords document as well.