vyatta box needs password recovery

General questions
1

Have a vyatta box acting as firewall for a long time. Password unavailable so the vyatta box is inaccessible. Need to migrate to sn ASA. Can anyone provide clues?

2

these are the VyOS forums, and I can’t remember if it was an option already present in grub, but you can boot into single user mode to reset passwords

3

Greetings,

Well, if you have physical access to the Vyatta box and/or the hard drive or CF card inside (depending on which version of the Vyatta box you have), you have a couple of options:

  1. You should be able to get the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files and run johntheripper on a linux box against them to recover the existing password. NOTE: This will likely take a long time, so the next option is probably better…
  2. You can chroot into the drive from a linux box and just change the password(s) for the vyatta (and admin) account(s) using the standard passwd utility.

HTH. Let us know.