https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Sign-in-with-root-user/m-p/241305#M203109 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/102271/weissruth4.html" nodeid="102271">@Weiss Ruth</A></P><P>Can you provide some more details on your deployment.</P><P>1. Which deployment of the sandbox are you using? Virtual-box/VmWare/Docker ?</P><P>2. Are you trying to login to the Sandbox container or the VM that is hosting the container ?</P><P>If you are trying to login to the sandbox host VM, then try running the following command ( assuming you have mapped the IP address of the sandbox to the hostname )</P><P>ssh root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com -p 2200 </P><P>If you are trying to login to the HDP container , then run the following command ( you would be prompted to change the password at first login )</P><P>ssh root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com -p 2201</P><P>use hadoop as the password in both the cases</P><P>ssh root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com -p 2200 </P><P>root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com's password:</P><P>[root@sandbox-host ~]#</P><P>ssh root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com -p 2201</P><P> root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com's password:</P><P> [root@sandbox-hdp ~]#</P> Wed, 02 Jan 2019 21:26:50 GMT vpaul 2019-01-02T21:26:50Z