On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Remko Lodder <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Michel Herzog wrote: > >> Remko Lodder wrote: >>> As mentioned by Aarno, >>> >>> Did you password protect your console? >>> >>> >> Hello >> >> Yes. >> >> Problem is that there is no documentation. Also i have not set up the system >> myself so that's why i am vague :) >> Its like very important configuration i need to access so thats why i am not >> just setting up a new. >> >> Best regards >> Michel >> >> > > So you learned that documentation is vital, backups are as well (so you could > replicate the system without taking > it down), oh well, many people forget those steps ;-) > > You could boot off from different media and perhaps load the slices and clear > the contents of it, you need to be > familiar with booting from e.g. a livecd, and using mount, chroot, and the > password changing tools. >
That's your best bet, you can boot off a pfSense live CD, go to a command prompt, and mount the drive there. Then you can manually edit the config, either reset the password hash to a known value or disable the console password protection and reset the password after rebooting. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
