Changing a user's password via terminal

eben · Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:46 am

How do I change a user's password via the terminal.

Let's say user admin is user 0 on the list. What's the /user ... command to change the password?

Thanks

omega-00 · Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:46 am

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/user set [find name=username] password=password

Is this what you're looking for?

eben · Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:28 am

ros code
/user set [find name=username] password=password
Is this what you're looking for?

That is perfect. Thank you.

Chupaka · Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:53 am

well,

/user set admin password=bla-bla

works fine for me

omega-00 · Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:29 am

That is correct, we both missed covering edge cases though.. IE:

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/user set [find name="michael.o'hara"] password=test123

Which works, but will not work if you try it with either of our original examples:

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/user set michael.o'hara password=test123

or

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/user set [find name=michael.o'hara] password=password

Here's to best practise and people with weird names hahahah

Edit: As pointed out usernames with 's are not allowed as router users, they are however able to be created as ppp secrets (and I'm assuming as usermanager accounts?)

Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:07 am

if a person uses michael.o'hara as his login name, he can only blame himself

Chupaka · Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:34 pm

well, I can't create a user with apostrophe or space in the name (router says 'Invalid user name') - so edge cases are cut by smart routerOS

Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:36 pm

well, I can't create a user with apostrophe or space in the name (router says 'Invalid user name') - so edge cases are cut by smart routerOS

http://xkcd.com/327/

omega-00 · Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:40 am

well, I can't create a user with apostrophe or space in the name (router says 'Invalid user name') - so edge cases are cut by smart routerOS

I know I'm being pedantic, but you can create those in other areas (like ppp secrets etc) so if someone is trying to use the same code for other similar functions they might run into that.

Poor Michael O'Hara.. or in our case I managed to find an existing customer with the last name Fox-d'Alpuget.. one day I'll name my Son Timo+hy so he has a terrible time getting email addresses for work or uni

Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:55 am

Off topic, but your son would simply get the address timo@something.com because using +hy is a valid tagging system for filtering mail. Ie. sending something to timo+hy@something.com would go to timo@something.com

vazhagelashvili · Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:53 am

well,
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/user set admin password=bla-bla
works fine for me

Hi,I wonder how to list users .Thanks in advance!

Almohalla · Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:32 pm

well,
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/user set admin password=bla-bla
works fine for me
Hi,I wonder how to list users .Thanks in advance!

to list users

/user print

LaZyLion · Wed Feb 01, 2023 2:36 am

Is there a way to mask a password in a script?

Instead of

 /user set admin password=bla-bla

you'd use

 /user set admin password-md5=f56e8aca4cdfaefba307865a179e28a7

Field techs can have user-level passwords, but I'd like to at least pretend I'm protecting my admin passwords from curious Georges.