OCI console does not need ssh user equivalency for OS image upgrade

Summary: I have an observation that whenver I invoke pathcmgr manully from exadata vm node for EXAcs it requires ssh user equivalency for root user.This is not the case for cloud console.My question how authentication is happening while invoking from console?

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