My name is Kyle and I am the network admin for a small WISP. We currently have a RB1000 router that we are using for about 550-600 customers/devices.
We seem to have forgotten our MikroTik Administrator password. I do have a user account that I can log in with. I did not initially set this RB1000 up. I have done lots of major changes to it, but I cannot use the GUI to make a backup of the configuration of the router. When I click “new terminal” the window flashes, then quickly disappears. I made sure to turn telnet and SSH back on for access to the firewall. Apparently when I telnet into it, the password and username I use in WinBox do not work.
Is there a way to
A. Change administrative password
B. Backup configuration
I do not think I am comfortable enough YET with MikroTik to reset this router in the middle of the night and try to re upload the configuration to it, and hope all works.
There are some other things I would like to do as well such as: limiting TCP connections on all clients to 50-60 at a time and limit bit torrent/p2p traffic. But I feel like I defiantly need a saved configuration file first.
We seem to have forgotten our MikroTik Administrator password. I do have a user account that I can log in with.
This statement is confusing. If you have access to router just now. Add new user with full privileges and set password (you will remember).
Open new Winbox/SSH/Telnet session and use new credentials.
If you do not have access to router, you are in trouble. MikroTik RouterOS does not have any password recovery. You will need to reinstall router without saving old configuration and start router reconfiguration from the “scratch”.
If the user has read rights you can export as much of the config as possible (passwords might be inaccessible if the user doesn’t have sensitive rights), then you’ll have to re-install while removing the configuration to reset all AAA configuration, and finally you can import your previous configuration and fix up what the mortal user didn’t have rights to see.
I am actually able to log into the router using SSH via PuTTy. For some reason, telnet would not work.
I used the command “export” and copied and pasted its contents to a .txt file. Would this be sufficient to restore my routers configuration in the event of a failure, reset, or upgrading to a new router?