{"id":1985,"date":"2020-06-08T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1985"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:47:07","slug":"reset-your-server-root-password","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/reset-your-server-root-password","title":{"rendered":"Reset Your Server Root Password 5 Step Quickly and Securely"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How to reset your server root password<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Login to your Cloud Dashboard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Click on Manage Flexi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cloud<\/a>\u00a0Nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Select the Virtual Machine you are going to reset password at List Servers Tab.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Click on Reset Root Password to reset the password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>To check the new password after reset, may click on show.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to reset your server root password Login to your Cloud Dashboard. Click on Manage Flexi\u00a0Cloud\u00a0Nodes. Select the Virtual Machine you are going to reset password at List Servers Tab. Click on Reset Root Password to reset the password. To check the new password after reset, may click on show. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[50],"kbtag":[1339],"class_list":["post-1985","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-how-to","kbtag-server-root-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6392,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1985\/revisions\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}