Most of the time you will be using SSH as the system user your app belongs to. We do not recommend SSH into your server as root privilege.  It's just good practice on any operating system to run your applications on a user level and leave administrative tasks to the root user. Instead you can log in as s System User. You can find the username of your System User in the Apps Tab -> Users sub tab

To SSH in to your server, first open a terminal and enter the following command, where 12.34.56.78 is your server's IP address and SYSUSER is the name of the system user your app belongs to: You can find the username of your System User in the Apps Tab -> Users sub tab

ssh SYSUSER@12.34.56.78

Press Enter.

Then, type in the password for your system user.

You are now SSH'd in to your server and can navigate and edit your server through the command line.

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