Hello. I have forgotten the root and the truenas_admin one. I kept them simple at the time i was setting it up by going step by step while watching a tutorial. I was easy at the time like my first Linux Mint setup so i thought i set Mint related one at the time. Then video guy said to make 2 accounts so i did and among the three i have been using 3rd one so far until the update notice came and i feared that upon new installation it will ask for root one so i kept it on hold for a while but i will need to upgrade the system in 5 to 6 months and until then this problem will stick with me in the back o my head so i decided to ask for a solution because i fear that i will lose my pool and its data if try to tinker even if i don’t know what i’m doing. The TrueNAS setup is on an SSD and the pool is on a separate HDD.
I don’t have the first clue what this means. But the answer is pretty simple, and that’s to use the console menu to reset the password.
Can id be done by the Local privilege account i am using for my NAS and reset the other two accounts, one of them is Local and the other is the “root” which is the Built’in one?
It doesn’t matter what account you used as your admin GUI account, although I’ll say that using root in that way with SCALE would be directly against the recommendations.
Doing as Dan says, using the Console menu, will let you reset any admin account’s password. All you need to do is connect a monitor and a keyboard to the server and boot it up. By default you’ll end up at a menu where one of the options is to change the admin user’s password. You can do so without knowing the password.
I say “By default” because it is possible to enable a login screen so that it shows up before the Console menu. If you did that it complicates things.
Connect the peripherals and find out!