Will fresh flash remove password?

[Ford1]

Wanting to remove password from my edision mini, to pass it on to a friend, if I do a fresh usb flash, with no restore, and set up the unit from scratch, will this remove the password ive set for user = root password = xxxxxxxxxx ??

[cactikid]

Yes it should if starting from scratch and no restores.

[abu baniaz]

Delete any backups from the storage device (HDD) if you have one.

[bbbuk]

Providing you can login as root already then you can try:-

sudo passwd -dl root

[Ford1]

@bbbuk unfortunately your command didn't seem to work, got a command unknown error.

a fresh install has removed it, and I am currently installing everything back on for him. thanks for the help guys

[ccs]

The "sudo" command isn't available by default, it'll need adding if you really need it. (Not sure which package it lives in.)