Password Recovery

[Tearlach]

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

[Tearlach]

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.

[franco]

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