Would you like to learn how to recover the OPNsense admin password? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the OPNsense password recovery procedure to change the password of the admin user using the command-line of an OPNsense server.
• OPNsense 19.7
Equipment list
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Tutorial OPNsense – Password Recovery
Perform the OPNsense server boot and wait for the Welcome menu.
On the Welcome screen, select the option to enter the Single mode.
In our example, the single mode is available by pressing the number 2.
The system will ask you to enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
Press Enter to have access to the command-line prompt.
Use the FSCK command to verify if the filesystem is clean.
Use the FSCK command to verify is the filesystem is clean.
OPNsense will mark the filesystem as clean.
Remount the root partition as rewritable
Execute the password reset command: opnsense-shell password
The Opnsense admin password will be reset.
Reboot the OPNsense server.
In our example, we changed the root user password to opnsense.
OPNsense Default Login
Open a browser software, enter the IP address of your Opnsense firewall and access web interface.
In our example, the following URL was entered in the Browser:
• https://192.168.15.11
The opnsense web interface should be presented.
On the prompt screen, enter the OPNsense Default Password login information.
• Username: root
• Password: opnsense
After a successful login, you will be sent to the OPNSense Dashboard.
Congratulations! You successfully recovered the password of the OPNsense root user.
