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Every Linux image in xneelo Cloud comes with a preconfigured <\/span>default user<\/span><\/a>. This user has root privileges and is used to access, configure, and manage your cloud instance.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a security measure, passwords are<\/strong> <\/span>disabled for the default user<\/b>. <\/span>If you need password login, you can manually set one during or after instance creation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"Every Linux image in xneelo Cloud comes with a preconfigured <\/span>default user<\/span><\/a>. This user has root privileges and is used to access, configure, and manage your cloud instance.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAs a security measure, passwords are<\/strong> <\/span>disabled for the default user<\/b>. <\/span>If you need password login, you can manually set one during or after instance creation.<\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn how default passwords work in xneelo Cloud and how to securely enable console access using a custom password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18591],"tags":[23516,23513,23510,23507,23504,20815,18711,17994],"topics":[21386,23636,18723],"class_list":["post-45419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","tag-disabled-password","tag-default-user","tag-linux-password","tag-cloud-password","tag-default-password-of-cloud-instances","tag-xneelo-cloud","tag-cloud","tag-xcp","topics-compute","topics-connect-to-instances","topics-xneelo-cloud"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":18591,"name":"Cloud","slug":"cloud","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18591,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":47,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2","cat_ID":18591,"category_count":47,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Cloud","category_nicename":"cloud","category_parent":0}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":23516,"name":"disabled password","slug":"disabled-password","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23516,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"309"},{"term_id":23513,"name":"default user","slug":"default-user","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23513,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"310"},{"term_id":23510,"name":"linux password","slug":"linux-password","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23510,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"311"},{"term_id":23507,"name":"cloud password","slug":"cloud-password","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23507,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"312"},{"term_id":23504,"name":"Default password of cloud instances","slug":"default-password-of-cloud-instances","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23504,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"313"},{"term_id":20815,"name":"xneelo cloud","slug":"xneelo-cloud","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20815,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1195"},{"term_id":18711,"name":"cloud","slug":"cloud","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18711,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":18,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1885"},{"term_id":17994,"name":"xcp","slug":"xcp","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17994,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":127,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2122"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Alexia Papadatos","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/alexia\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9dc491b1be8ef5ac4a33e742399256d17daf7e6fe70bc88cce1a7bbc06c1a406?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45419"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=45419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}