When you log in to your Gandi account, you are already connecting to your server as administrator.
You have access to all your servers and may manage your packages via the Gandi interface.
Open a terminal and use the following command to access your server as admin
:
ssh admin@123.123.123.123
Replace 123.123.123.123
with the IP address of your server, of course.
The password is the one you specified when you first created your server.
To connect via a graphic-based FTP client, simply use a program such as FileZilla.
You will be asked for your username and password. The username is admin
, and the password is the password that you provided when you created your server.
Be sure to connect with “passive mode”.
This is not possible in AI mode; see “Connection as root” below.
By default, you do not have “root” access to your server when you use Gandi AI to create your server.
This being said, if during the course of using your server, you need access to your server as root, and if you are an experienced server administrator, you can permanently deactivate Gandi AI for your server and obtain root access.
See root-activation →