I am trying to reload a new copy of opnsense and base it on a config.xml.
I can do this and it gets running as my server, however the challenge is I chose a really complex password for my system and it is too hard to type it in manually. This means I cannot get logged in to run the installer to get it on the hardware.
Is there a way to get the system to do the import but replace the config.xml version of the root password with the standard opnsense default? If not an option can I do this by modifying config.xml?
Easy fix.
I went into config.xml and removed the password for root. Then the importer worked and it defaulted to the normal root password.
Hi Trebax,
What exactly did you do to fix the login. I am in the same situation. I rebuilt my OPNsense and when I restored the backup config.xml, the credential was not working anymore. I even tried to reset the root account via the "opnsense-shell password" command but it didn't do anything. I could not login to the web UI, SSH or the console.
I opened the .xml file and deleted the <password>hashed-password</password> line, and restored the config using this modified .xml, but I still could not login.
Any ideas?