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What is aws redhat root password

I am new in aws, i lunch an redhat instance on aws with free-tier, i logged with ssh client.

My ip starts with like this [email protected]

that is mean i logged with ec2-user, when i try to run some service inside the instance machine, It ask me for root password.

Can anyone tell me what is the root password? i couldn't figure out this yet

Here you go to see some example:

[ec2-user@ip-172--my-aws-ip---34 ~]$ systemctl start docker.service
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ====
Authentication is required to start 'docker.service'.
Authenticating as: root
Password:
Solution

  • using sudo su - to swtich to root and execute above command or execute as sudo systemctl start docker.service