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I had an interesting issue with my DD-WRT Linksys WRT54G today - http password

Submitted by mark on Tue, 2008-04-22 06:46.

So occasionally I will let my Firefox remember my passwords. It's okay, everyone does it.

Not too long ago, I was making changes to my router's config, and on the config page is the place where you define the http admin's username and password.

Well, Firefox plugged in something it had remembered in the past, and for the life of me I couldn't crack myself back in.

BUT, I do have SSH access. The default user on the current DD-WRT series is root, not whatever it likely set. So since I have root access, somehow I must be able to do something about reverting my password faux-pas..

Google to the rescue, I quickly found that you can reset the http password via the following commands:

~ # nvram set http_passwd=
~ # nvram commit

That's it! Log back in to the http interface with admin/blank password, go to the Administration page to set a new password, and you're set. No need to reset to factory.


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