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what's the root password in FreeBsd? no possibility to reset it

Posted on April 20, 2017

I’ve installed a fresh FreeBsd droplet. I don’t know a password for root and haven’t received it, neither in spam. Moreover, in the dashboard at Digital Ocean it says “you should manager your password inside your system/droplet via ssh, by yourself. We don’t have and can’t reset it”

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Jonathan Tittle

April 20, 2017

@samoshi

When I attempt to setup a new FreeBSD Droplet, it’s telling me that I need to use SSH Keys

That means no password will be setup for root, instead, your SSH Key will be used to login and you would provide that when connecting to the server.

For example, on MacOS, using Terminal, I’d run:

ssh root@droplet_ip -i /path/to/private_key

With PuTTy on Windows/Linux, you’ll need to convert the key to PuTTy format and set the path to the key by modifying the entry in PuTTy – I believe it’s under Auth.

Flamber Hansen

April 21, 2017

There is no root password set by default. You can set a password for root with:

sudo passwd

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-freebsd-10-1#set-a-root-password-(optional)

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