Comments on: Reset DD-WRT http password using SSH

By: Pipoca

Pipoca — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:47:36 +0000

Worked for me too in Telnet. Thanks a lot, Himuraken!

By: Joe Cleveland

Joe Cleveland — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:42:50 +0000

Thanks a million, rebooted router and kept asking for password! this tip worked.

By: BrainSlayer

BrainSlayer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:38:59 +0000

the exploit has been fixed a long time ago. your version is out of date.
beside this. isnt it easier to use the command
“setuserpasswd” instead of modifying the nvram.
the command does allow resetting of the username and password to a new one

By: ThatGuy

ThatGuy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:26:20 +0000

Thanks man, you rock!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:58:29 +0000

This works on Telnet too! THANKS MAN!!

By: Gember Design » DD-WRT Password Reset

Gember Design » DD-WRT Password Reset — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:16:20 +0000

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By: phonox

phonox — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:51:59 +0000

OK,

I tried out some more, but didn’t succeed.

it was http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/;reboot anyways.

it prooves that you have root access.
Instead of reboot you can type any shell command, but obviously no whitespaces or scripts

Is there anyone who figured this out?

By: phonox

phonox — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:43:02 +0000

Sorry K,

i tried that out for you, it didn’t work.

but there is a way,

http://192.168.1.1/;reboot

works

By: phonox

phonox — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:37:19 +0000

Hey, there is a critical bug in the actual version of DD-WRT.

You can just enter

http://192.168.1.1/;nvram set http_passwd=
and
http://192.168.1.1/;nvram commit

look at
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=55173&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

You should update to preV24 as fast as possible…

best regards,

phonox

By: K

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:11:04 +0000

Hrm, that sequence not only didn’t fix it for me, it’s locked me out via ssh too.

By: Engineer

Engineer — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:11:04 +0000

I enabled JFFS and was unable to login using HTTP. However telnet and ssh still worked. The above workaround enabled me to get HTTP access working again. Many thanks!

By: herrfreak

herrfreak — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:58:03 +0000

Thanks it worked for me as well on a wap54 g

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By: himuraken

himuraken — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:20:51 +0000

Sak, I am not sure that I understand your comment/question. Let me know what your are running into.

–Himuraken

By: sak

sak — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:08:12 +0000

Can you explain step by step or not?
I’m cannot cofig. of Wap54g and show password incorrect.

Thank you

By: mishle

mishle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:33:34 +0000

Thanks this worked great for me using telnet.

I was locked out of the admin and I knew I had the right pasword.

Thank you so much.

Mishle