Connecting to your new Virtual Private Server for the First Time

When you ordered your new Virtual Private Server, you were asked to provide a username and password for your administrative user account. This account is the one you will use to connect to your server to perform administrative tasks.

Your administrative user is the primary user for managing your Virtual Private Server, and has Email and FTP permissions, as well as the ability to manage virtual user accounts, as well as managing FTP, Web, and Email configuration. In addition, the administrative user is a member of the wheel group, which means that the administrative user can use the su command to become the root user.

When connecting to your VPS v2 to perform administrative tasks, you should always connect using a secure protocol (such as SSH). You should avoid connecting to your VPS v2 directly as the root user, and should never use an insecure protocol when doing so.

A successful login will place you in the User Home Directory. Only the User's files and directories are accessible here. To access the main server directories you will need to Change Up one directory to the Server Directory.

# cd ..