{"id":16,"date":"2013-08-28T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/?p=16"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T10:50:08","slug":"huawei-hg523a-forgotten-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Huawei HG523a forgotten password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m a numpty &#8211; I forgot the admin password for my router. \u00a0The (security driven) delay before you can try again is hampering me from trying the many I might have used &#8211; especially as it doesn&#8217;t tell you if it was wrong or it is still timed out!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, on one of my computers, I have a cookie saved that fills my username and password in for me, so I can still log in. \u00a0Okay, so I must be able to recover my password from this&#8230; right? \u00a0I really don&#8217;t want to have to factory reset the thing. \u00a0Challenge&#8230; wait for it&#8230; accepted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter the menu system (with your saved credentials).<\/li>\n<li>Click Advanced and click Okay to proceed.<\/li>\n<li>Click Maintenance, click Device, then click the Configuration File tab.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Download Configuration File button and save it to your desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Open the file with Notepad (or Wordpad).<\/li>\n<li>Search for the text\u00a0Userpassword<\/li>\n<li>Copy and paste the password into the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.base64decode.org\/\">http:\/\/www.base64decode.org\/<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/li>\n<li>Click the &lt;Decode&gt; button.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Your password will be displayed in plain text.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m a numpty &#8211; I forgot the admin password for my router. \u00a0The (security driven) delay before you can try again is hampering me from trying the many I might have used &#8211; especially as it doesn&#8217;t tell you if it was wrong or it is still timed out! Luckily, on one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zebadger.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}