How to enable ssh access for root in WHM Godaddy VPS Hosting

We can enable the root access via Assigning the root access permission to and existing user.

1. First make sure you have one hosted domain on the WHM like 'asdf.com' and username is 'oneuser' password is 'mypassowrd'

2. Second login your WHM 



3. After login type in search 'Manage Wheel Group' or go to Security>Manage Wheel Group Users and make sure your user 'one' is in the Wheel group, you can add this in the group this group defines who is able to use su command. (most of the time you cant add the root user).



4. After #3 complete again search in WHM for 'Manage Shell Access' and where you can 'Normal Shell' to your user 'oneuser'


5. Login as normal user in SSH after login success you can use below command to awitch root

su - root

6. Not it will ask for password you can use the current user password or the whm user password to enter the root.

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