How do I recover the root password?

Restart the system with a reboot by from the shell user by typing:

shutdown -h now

Alternatively, shutdown the server by using the shutdown/restart
in the Administration Tool from your web browser

If neither of these are possible, powercycle the server.

- At the boot menu select Option 2 Boot FreeBSD in single user mode.
- At the question regarding "/bin/sh" hit ENTER.
- At the # prompt type:

fsck -y

- Remount the filesystems with the command:

mount -a

- Run the following command to change the root password:

passwd root

You may also want to change the statseeker password

passwd statseeker

- After changing the passwords, reboot using the shutdown -r now.

A step-by-step guide to recovering the Statseeker server root password.