DD-WRT:Change the Root SSH Password
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



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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.

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setuserpasswd [username] [password]
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To give an example here

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setuserpasswd root Jimminycr1cket4tehW1n
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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


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