VPS Console and Root Password: Owners and Administrators Only
In the console, opening a VPS console or revealing its root password now needs the Owner or Administrator role; Editors can still manage the server.
What's changed
- In the console, only a project's owner and administrators can open a VPS console or reveal its root password. Editors and the demo account can no longer do either there
- An Editor can still manage the VPS, for example start, stop, reboot and resize it. Where the console or the password would appear (the Console tab, the full-window console, the Connect drawer and the connection details), the page says that console access is for owners and administrators and tells them to ask one of them, or to ask the owner to change their role
- The email that tells your team a VPS is ready still goes to every member, but it prints the root password only for recipients who may read it. For a VPS that signs in with a password, the other members are told to ask the project's owner or an administrator to arrange SSH access
- If an Editor relies on the console today, the project's owner can change their role under Project Settings, on the Members tab, or an owner or administrator can open the console instead