When you connect to your Gandi account, you are already connecting to your server as administrator.
You have access to all your servers and may manage your packages via the Gandi interface.
Open a terminal and use the following command to access your server as admin:
ssh admin@123.123.123.123
Where you replace 123.123.123.123 with the IP address of your server.
Note:
Macintosh and Linux users, you may use the terminal that comes with your system. Windows users, you will need to install, configure, and use a third-party terminal application such as "PuTTy".To connect via a graphic-based FTP client, simply use a program such as FileZilla.
You will be asked for your username and password. The username is admin, and the password is the password that you provided when you created your server.
Be sure to connect with "passive mode".
By default, you do not have "root" access to your server when you use Gandi AI to create your server.
This being said, if during the course of using your server, you need access to your server as root, and if you are an experienced server administrator, you can permanently deactivate Gandi AI for your server and obtain root access.
Warning:
WARNING! If you activate root access, you will never be able to recover the management of your server by Gandi AI! From that point onward, all management of your server must be done manually by you.Once connected to the page "Server Overview", click on the name of the server in question in the section, "Server Administration". Use the link "Enable root access" in the "System administration" area of the page.
Enter the password that you want for the root account and submit.
Last modified: 02 Jan 2008 at 19:35 by Ryan Anderson