I recently had to go in and recent the password on a redundant pair of Secure Computing G2 firewalls. It was fairly straight forward and simple enough, but I still wanted to document it here:

First boot or reboot the firewall,. When you see the “loading/boot…” message appear, press any key to interrupt the boot cycle.
Next, you will see the Boot: prompt. Type in the following command:
bsd.sw.admin -w
This will boot the firewall into Administrative/Maintenance kernel.

Hit Enter to mount and check all of the file systems. Clean file systems are always a good thing.

After that, use the following command to change the password:

cf adminuser modify user=name password=password

And to reboot into normal mode, type: shutdown -r now

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