Reset password

1. Check that you have a working console connection to the ALOHA.

   • If you have a physical ALOHA, then you must connect to the serial port.

   • If you have a virtual ALOHA, then follow the instructions here using the Graphical/Direct console.

2. Immediately after you switch on the ALOHA, press the "escape" key multiple times to get to the grub menu.

   

3. Press e to edit the commands before you boot Image 1.

4. Select the kernel line and press e again.

   

5. Once you can edit the kernel line, do the following:

   • Change tty0 to ttyS0 in the console param

   • Append param

   • INITSHELL=1

   

6. Press Enter to save the configured kernel params and return to the previous menu

7. Press b to start the image.

8. Once started, you will be in a hostile environment; hence, you must invoke a shell using /bin/sh.

   

9. Proceed in the order below to reset the "admin" password:

   • Mount the system partition (second partition of the compact flash).

   • "Untar" the saved configuration.

   • Remove the shadow file.

   • Recreate the configuration archive again and move it to overwrite the old one.

   • "Umount" the system partition.

   $ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
   $ sudo cd /tmp
   $ sudo tar xzf /mnt/cfg/config.cur
   $ sudo rm etc/shadow
   $ sudo tar czf config.cur etc/
   $ sudo mv config.cur /mnt/cfg/
   $ sudo umount /mnt

10. Restart ALOHA.