Couple of newbie questions: (1) Assuming one has created additional admin users and disabled root, will the console password recovery process (option 3: reset root user password) still work? In other words, will the console password recovery process not only allow one to reset the root user password but also reenable a disabled root user account? (2) Where does one look to verify whether a particular installation used ZFS or UFS filesystem? I could have sworn it used to be displayed on the Lobby Dashboard . . .
Thanks
I ran across Franco's 2018 explanation as to question 1 (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9690.0). Console option 3 will not only allow you to reset the password, but also asks "Do you want to set it back to Local Database [y/n]". Perfect.
Yes, the root account is ensured to work with the given password through the recovery script.
Use this to see if your root file system is on ZFS or UFS:
# mount | awk '$3 == "/" { print $1 }'
zroot/ROOT/default
Cheers,
Franco