I received a brand new RB5009 today, unfortunately the credentials on the device label and the separate label in the box (both the same) did not work when logging into the device.
I reset the router, and netinsatlled the router to latest ver, still the same issue.
In the end here’s what worked for me, I leave it here in case it helps someone (also I’m curious if there’s a better way).
I booted the router with netinstall again, this time I de-selected “Apply default config” (don’t only do this, it won’t work).
I then selected the “Configure Script” option and selected a script.rsc with the commands to create a new user:
:delay 10
user add name=newuser password=newpass group=full
I then ran the netinstall with the above settings and after the router rebooted I could access it with the new credentials and reset the default ones.
I suspect if I ever have to factory reset this device, I’ll have to jump through these hoops all over again. It would be nice if there was an option in netinstall to wipe credentials.
I suspect the credentials are “right”, but some of the labels use a difficult to read font.
And yeah there is no “reset to no password” in netinstall. You can access the original ones using a custom script, but adding you’re own user with -s in netinstall likely easiest.
zero, capital O (and yes, EVEN when MAC address shows the stroked zero, it can be in passwd O is a zero because it’s another font. They changed it later on but until all stock is gone, the issue might still be there)
lower L, 1
What also helps is to make a picture at least x3.
Standard procedure I use since they started with this …
As others have stated, MT delivered batches where they used a font with hard to distinguish numbers/letters (i,1,l,0,O etc). This is fixed for recent badges.
You also can ask Mikrotik support for the specific default password if you provide them type and serial number of your device.
And your init script approach to create your own user is very clever. Thanks for the idea!
