Enhanced Winbox: plaintext password file and same directory

RouterOS General
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This is a freeware app I use, and you may like it too.

Two things I didn’t like about Winbox:

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Winbox keeps the saved passwords in an location within the appdata folder, and it can’t be moved.

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The file is a binary type of file that isn’t too easy to read manually or edit manually.

I fixed these 2 issues by creating a new winbox loader.

This modified winbox loader keeps a plaintext file in the same directory as winbox.exe, so you never lose track of it. This file is easy to read and modify by hand. The file will be created the first time you save an entry, then you can see the format of the file.

If you like it, comment here. If you don’t like it, comment here. It works great for my uses, but you may or may not find it useful.

EDIT: Fixed to allow very long passwords. Please redownload if you use long passwords and get “wrong password” error.
Enhanced_Winbox_Loader_1.0.zip (412 KB)

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Other than saving to a text file, what other advantages does this have over the original.

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Well, having the data file in the same directory as winbox makes it portable. You can put it on a usb drive and use it in any computer and keep your usernames and passwords. You can’t really do that with the regular winbox since it saves the file in an odd place.

Also, some people that use Vista/7 that are not able to get Winbox to save their data at all… this would work for them.

For me, I like having the portability and being able to have a human readable list of logins and addresses that I can refer to.

Note that having the passwords in a plaintext file does not make it any less secure. The regular winbox also stores the passwords in plain text, it just has a lot of binary junk in there as well and looks ugly.

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nice job