Google Compute Engine CentOS Web Panel

Question

I have created a CentOS Web Panel on Google Compute Engine .

At the end of the setup is says my username is root and password is 'ssh root server password'. The google compute engine doesn't use ssh passwords so how am I supposed to log in to the CentOS Web Panel ?

Answer 1

Not only Google Compute Engine, all the Cloud Instances Compute use SSH key pair to login to the VPS/Server. In this case, after you finished setting up your Centos Web Panel,reboot ther server and login to your SSH (same as you did previously, using your key pair) and then set the password for your root user by this command and submit your new password:

sudo passwd

Reboot your server: reboot

Now you can login to your CWP : http://your_ip:2030/

Answer 2

In your case, i will suggest you to set the password for root and then use that new root password for your CentOS Web Panel.

When i installed WebMin on **Google Compute Centos**, then i also set the first time root password and used it for WebMin` login.

Preparing...

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Operating system is CentOS Linux 1:webmin

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Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://mymachineIP:10000/ as root with your root password.

Answer 3

I know this is old question but posting this so any newcomer can make use of it. This is with my experience on that.

First make sure what is your encryption algorithm is.

Be sure to get root access with sudo -s . use authconfig --test to check which is the encryption algorithm. If you get "password hashing algorithm is descrypt" then you have to set is first. use authconfig --passalgo=ENCRYPTION_ALGORITHM --update .

Where ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM may be SHA-512, SHA-256, MD-5.

After that you create a new password by passwd command. Enter your password and press enter. Your password will not be shown in terminal. then re-enter the password press enter.

Then go to login page then enter your newly created password as the password.

for further reference - http://forum.centos-webpanel.com/centos-webpanel/how-to-fix-encryption-error-on-login/