Hello,
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Netinstall#Reset_RouterOS_Password
i can’t understand, is this useful for me?
i need to recover the settings of a mikrotik routerboard 750a with OS 4.10 or 4.16
is it possible to reset the password keeping the current configuration?
Password is part of configuration. There is no way to reset password without resetting configuration.
http://manio.skyboo.net/mikrotik/
is there a way that this guide somehow apply on routerboard 750a, which don’t have serial port?
if you saved yours configuration to PC then yes, you’ll need only recovery password
Password recovery from backups:
It may happend that you loose/forgot the password but fortunately you made a backup file some time ago. Backup files are made by RouterOS and saved in format:
MikroTik-DDMMYYYY-HHMM.backup
From 0.4 version mtpass is able to recover password from backup files too. You only need to pass a backup file name argument, like this:./mtpass MikroTik-02082008-1346.backup
Similar situation is when you have a full flash-dump file, for instance /dev/mtdblock (look above at point 4). The mtpass should also be able to recover lost passwords.
if not then you cant
yes, the guide is showing how to create backup of the cfg w/o having the actual pass.
after that u can recover it with some tools, that’s clear.
the question is - to create a backup w/o actually having the password is possible on routerboard 4xx with serial port.
is it possible on 750 w/o serial port?
I don’t think so. To create a backup, you need to login to the router, and have access to the console to issue commands.