How to Reboot a Server Over SSH

This video demonstrates how to reboot your server over SSH.

The big thing to know if that if you’re logged in as the “root” — most powerful — user on the system, the sudo is unnecessary.

But if you’re instead just a normal user — which is generally recommended as a general security measure — you’ll need it. sudo is a simple command that basically means “for the stuff I type after this, use an elevate permissions level.”

Or, in other words “as a ‘super-user'”.

Because non-root users don’t typically have the ability to reboot over SSH, you’ll need that to do so. But otherwise that’s all you need.

Another thing to note is that you’ll be disconnected if the command executes successfully. This makes sense. A system that’s powering off to then come back up will inherently drop all of it’s external connection, including the one to you via SSH.

For more advice about using the Unix command line and more, check out this recent article: wpshout.com/unix-terminal-working-permissions-n….

Full quick guide is at: wpshout.com/quick-guides/reboot-server-ssh/

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