The screenshots below detail the steps required to add a second access point to a MikroTik router. This quick tutorial does not address the setup steps required to secure your wireless network WPA/WPA2 wireless authentication. Click Wireless from the left menu, Click Add and choose VirtualAP. It’s easy for a hacker to find out the manufacturer’s default password for your MikroTik RB2011iL-RM router and then use that password to access your wireless network. So it’s wise to change the administrator password for your MikroTik RB2011iL-RM router. When you’re deciding on your new password, try to pick a complex series of numbers and letters and try to avoid using a password that can be guessed easily.
Howto Recover Mikrotik ADMIN account Forgotten Password
According to information on MikrotikWIKI and forums, it is not possible to recover the passwords without resetting whole mikrotik box (resulting in loss of all configuration also). However following are few methods to recover the password.
0# Recover password from BACKUP file using a website https://www.mikrotikpasswordrecovery.net/
If you require it on urget basis, you can email me your config, and I will recover it for you, just in case if you dont have linux or urgency is required.
1# Recover password from BACKUP file using Ubuntu or Linux LIVE CD [updated April 2014]
![Mikrotik Change Wireless Password Mikrotik Change Wireless Password](/uploads/1/2/3/6/123682782/492030177.png)
2# Recover password by mounting Mikrotik Hard disk in Linux LIVE CD and do recovery [not updated since last year, it was tested with 5 version)
2# Recover password from BACKUP file using Linux [working as of april 2014]
Login to your Ubuntu / Linux Box,
Download mikrotik password recovery tool and compile it by following commands,
Download mikrotik password recovery tool and compile it by following commands,
Now upload/copy your Mikrotik Backup File to /temp folder ( Either using WINSCP gui tool, WEBMIN File Manager, via USB or any other method you like)
Now Issue the following command
It will show you all account passwords in few seconds.
As shown in the image below . . .
As shown in the image below . . .
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3# Recover password of x86 PC Version
Boot from Ubuntu LIVE CD
(I used Ubuntu 9.1 Desktop CD in this example, you can download it from following link.
(I used Ubuntu 9.1 Desktop CD in this example, you can download it from following link.
Select “Try Ubuntu”
As Shown in the image below . . .
As Shown in the image below . . .
After you see Desktop, Open TERMINAL from APPLICATION > ACCESSORIES > TERMINAL
Now change to root user by
sudo su
sudo su
Now check your partitions by issuing
fdisk -l
fdisk -l
you will see something like below image.
You partition can be different, use your judgment to see what partition mt is in, either by mounting it one by one.
Now mount it any folder , for example
mkdir /temp
mount -t auto /dev/sda2 /temp
mount -t auto /dev/sda2 /temp
Now check its content by ls /temp and you will something like below image
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Now Copy the ‘mikrotik password file’, (in newer ROS , it is located in /rw/store/user.dat) to USB flash drive, It will be used to decode the password.
(The USB flash drive should be ‘plug and play’ in UbuntuLive. Just plug it in usb port and it will appear on desktop in few seconds , OR you can also copy it your network pc via configuring interface lan card accordingly)
(Note: In older ROS it is /nova/store/user.dat)
(The USB flash drive should be ‘plug and play’ in UbuntuLive. Just plug it in usb port and it will appear on desktop in few seconds , OR you can also copy it your network pc via configuring interface lan card accordingly)
(Note: In older ROS it is /nova/store/user.dat)
Now shutdown live cd.
then Boot from your Ubuntu box, and use the Method # 2 , described earlier in this article to decode password using mtpass tool from this file.
Copy the user.dat file where you have decompressed mt password tool . e.g /temp , now use the mt pass tool to recover password from this file.
./mtpass user.dat
and you will see your admin password.
As Now you have seen the password now, you can login into mikrotik pc router with your Old Password ? ? ?
If your architecture is ROUTERBOARD RB series, Please follow the below guide.
Also it’s possible for you to send an SMS to your router, tell it to run a script (parameters supported) and the router can even respond, as it also supports SMS sending! More here:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Sms
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Sms
You can setup an script just in case you forgot your password , and via sending sms, it can reset it to default. or send you return the new/original password.
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