DD-WRT:Change the Root SSH Password =================================== :author: Aaron Ball :email: nullspoon@iohq.net ... To change your root password on your DD-WRT router (assuming you already know what it currently is set to), log in through SSH. It turns out that DD-WRT doesn't use the passwd command to set user passwords like most Linux's. Instead, to set your password, run the following command. ---- setuserpasswd [username] [password] ---- To give an example here ---- setuserpasswd root Jimminycr1cket4tehW1n ---- This may not work on older versions of DD-WRT. I can't say because my router, the Buffalo Technology WHR-HP-G300N runs DD-WRT v24-sp2. Category:DD-WRT Category:Linux // vim: set syntax=asciidoc: