https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Sign-in-with-root-user/m-p/241303#M203107 <P><EM> <A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/102271/weissruth4.html">@Weiss Ruth</A></EM></P><P><EM>It seems you duplicated your thread this doesn't help, firstly we lose track of the previous history and start diagnostics from scratch which is a waste of time.</EM></P><P><EM>Having said that using the windows cmd line <STRONG>sshlogin.png</STRONG> won't work because the 127.0.0.1 maps to the local hosts the host via the loopback network interface on your windows machine and NOT the Sandbox running in Oracle Virtualbox. Download the putty and use port tunneling to map the port 2222 ! <BR />HTH</EM></P> Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:41:23 GMT Shelton 2019-01-01T21:41:23Z