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dalejsa
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Locked out of admin account

Tue Jun 23, 2015 2:26 pm

Hi All

Hoping someone can help. I followed the instructions below that I found on this forum for a traffic monitor and since then I can't log in as admin. I can SSH in using the new user but the admin user account gives me a bad user or password error.

Is there a way, logged in as the new users in SSH, to update the admin password? I don't know any of the commands yet i'm afraid. Herewith the instructions I followed:

On Mikrotik
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Create an SSH user for getting DHCP lease names and DNS entries
/user
group add name=sniffer policy="ssh,read"
add address=192.168.88.0/24 disabled=no group=sniffer name=sniffer

Enable accounting, required for graph
/ip accounting
set account-local-traffic=no enabled=yes threshold=2560
/ip accounting web-access
set accessible-via-web=yes address=192.168.88.XX/32
(XX is the IP of the Windows machine where SnifferService will run)

check on http://192.168.88.1/accounting/ip.cgi that it works (from specified machine)