Forget my beaglebone password - unable to login

Apologies if I'm stating the obvious and you've already thought of these, but I'll post them anyway.

• The default username and password is debian/temppwd. Whilst we should change this, I suspect most people don't.
• Is there anything on there you need? If not, it may be easier to just reflash the OS. It's probably been updated since you last looked too.

Fred27 - I would have changed my password - initially had the temppwd but that will not work now.Are you suggesting get an sd - get the new os - attach sd to board and connect to pc with the usb cable ?

another option is to use a wifi to network gizmo (I use a Vonets VAP.11G):

If the device is known to work with a wired network (say: the above beaglebone), you are set.

No connection to the PC. Can be powered from the BBs USB. And no drivers or config with the usual linux images.

You have to get a wifi dongle or other device that is compatible to BBB.I use conmanctl to configure my wifi dongles and have very good performance with it.Conmanctl comes with debian10, I'm not sure about debian11 yet as I have not tried it. I prefer to to not flash the BBB and use 32gb sd card to run the software. I have loaded many different versions this way and have never had to hold down the boot button to load the software OS.

Hope this helps

Brian

Hmm - thanks for sharing this info - never knew of this product.

Hello BrianTJM - now that I am ready to reflash my board - i noticed in the beaglebone.org/latest distros  - two files image and sha256 - are both files needed micro sd that contents will be flashed to the emmc?

I haven't flashed any images in quite some time, once I bricked a board attempting that and since then I only run os on sd card.

As far as sha256 I could never get a matching sum so I don't bother with that anymore. I am not sure if you need the files mentioned.  Anyways what is your reason for flashing? I would like to know the benefits of this.

Thanks

Brian

Based on what I have gathered in this forum so far - and my initial issue of unable to login because I cannot get my password correct - reflashing will enable me to go back to default login . I am still trying to go through the flashing process in theory before even trying .

I always make sure root login is enabled in all of my distros.

Brian

Jan Campus - I have checked my local best buy and staples but they don' carry this gadget - I will source from some third party online.

Jan Cumps - finally got this wifi repeater - I have not connected it up as yet .

Fred27 - what about the SHA files? do you have to download that as well ?

Fred27 - what about the SHA files? do you have to download that as well ?