Title: Changing Linux Root Password
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing Linux Root Password

 *  [davekerber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davekerber/)
 * (@davekerber)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-linux-root-password/)
 * Is there any problem caused by changing the root password on a linux server running
   a wordpress site? I assume it causes no problems but there is quite a bit running
   on this particular server and I want to double check.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-linux-root-password/#post-1723359)
 * It shouldn’t cause any problems.

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 * [linux](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/linux/)
 * [password change](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password-change/)

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