Single User Mode in FreeBSD?

A local business recently went under, and my (old) school's FIRST Robotics team somehow managed to get all their computer equipment.

Anyway, my experience is strictly with Linux; a lot of what they donated are *really* nice FreeBSD boxes. (Not too long ago we were struggling to try to get another 40 GB drive to make a fileserver with RAID. Now we have a 4U box loaded with like 16+ SCSI drives, with nearly half a terabyte of space. We're still amazed.)

I think we're going to re-image a lot of them to be either Windows workstations ( Single User Mode in FreeBSD? ), or Linux servers of forms. But I think we want to keep at least the massive fileserver thing the way it's setup; there's no sense in putting Linux on it just because I like it better, when I have no experience setting up RAID, much less getting three RAID cards to see a set of 16+ SCSI disks as one huge stripeset.

The problem is... They donated the hardware, but no manuals, and they didn't bother telling us passwords to anything. On the Linux ones, we easily got into single-user mode and reset the passwords, but there's no readily-apparent way to do this in FreeBSD. We have full physical access (and the boxes are ours, it's not like I'm trying to crack someone else's!). Is there a way in FreeBSD, or is it going to be easier to do everything in Linux?

 

 

 

 

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