OK, I am lazy, which means I use Winbox, and it has the password stored for every Mikrotik I manage. Plus I use Winbox on several computers - laptops, desktops, and computers I remote into. I take it this guy was not similarly lazy? If I was the fired ex-admin, all you would need is to find one of the computers I used Winbox on. Even if it's not possible to decrypt the stored passwords, you could Winbox into every Mikrotik and change the password.
I guess real men use SSH and the CLI. Oh, and don't store the credentials in their SSH client. Note, it appears Winbox 3 stores the passwords as cleartext in settings.cfg.viw. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 9:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Password reset for inherited network On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 00:24 +0000, Brett A Mansfield wrote: > I was able to find the backups. Sadly they are running v6.36. > > If I default it can I restore its config and change the password or > will it apply the old one? > > Google for "mtpass". That will find the passwords in the backup file. If these backups contain the "old" OR the "new" password, when you default/restore the backup, the password will be whatever is in that file. -- Butch Evans Training and Support for WISPs 702-537-0979 http://store.wispgear.net/ http://www.butchevans.com/
