Open BSD
I don’t often seem to find the time to play around with some of the various UNIX variants out there. Anyway when a customers VPN network appliance died on me today I went to investigate.
It was supplied by a company who are no longer in business so I was pretty much on my own.
After attaching a monitor and keyboard and watching it boot I discovered it was booting OpenBSD 3.8
I didn’t know the root password and this appliance had lost all tcp/ip connectivity. So I googled and found http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-forgotten-openbsd-root-password.html
This post worked like a charm for me and I had reset the root password within a few minutes.
No time to find out why this appliance cannot communicate over tcp/ip currently.