man, ive been hiding that shame for some time, im glad to know someone else out there is equally as guilty
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
