Forget my beaglebone password - unable to login

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Hello guys - I forgot my Beaglebone password so I am unable to login in .Help would be appreciated.

Fred27 · Answer

Unless there's something on the board that you need, you can reflash a new OS onto a micro SD card (using your PC) and start from scratch. You can download either an image that runs from the SD card or one that will copy itself over to the on-board eMMC from here: https://www.beagleboard.org/distros 
 The latest image will give you Debian 11 rather than the older version that was probably pre-installed on the board. I think you have to hold down a button on boot to run from SD card rather than on-board flash.

dougw · Answer

Does this help? 
 https://mmmsoftware.blogspot.com/2014/01/recovering-root-password-on-beaglebone.html

Forget my beaglebone password - unable to login

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