{"id":5,"date":"2012-05-03T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolbox.pingvinfeszek.hu\/?p=5"},"modified":"2016-12-10T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:17:45","slug":"mikrotik-routeros-password-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/mikrotik-routeros-password-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"MikroTik RouterOS Password Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgetting a long &#8211; usually pwgen generated &#8211; password can truly be a pain. There are numerous methods of circumventing the password authentication protection, what we will be dealing with today is extracting the hashed password from a MikroTik backup file.<\/p>\n<p>First, download the required .deb packages for your Debian\/Ubuntu Linux here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mtpass-0.8_i386.deb\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/downloads\/mtpass-0.8_i386.deb\" target=\"_blank\">mtpass-0.8_i386.deb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mtpass-0.8_amd64.deb\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/downloads\/mtpass-0.8_amd64.deb\" target=\"_blank\">mtpass-o.8_amd64.deb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, alternatively, get the source tarballs (and other platform versions) from here: <a title=\"mtpass homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/manio.skyboo.net\/mikrotik\/\" target=\"_blank\">mtpass homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the installation has completed (using <b>dpkg -i mtpass-0.8*?.deb<\/b> or anything else you like) just issue the following command:<\/p>\n<p><code>.\/mtpass MikroTik-backup-file-name.backup<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The end result will look something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>mtpass v0.8 - MikroTik RouterOS password recovery tool, (c) 2008 by manio\r\n\r\nReading file user.dat, 166 bytes long\r\n\r\nRec#| Username | Password | Disable flag | User comment\r\n-------------------------------------------------------\r\n 1  | admin | secretpass || system default user<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/manio.skyboo.net\/mikrotik\/\">manio.skyboo.net\/mikrotik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgetting a long &#8211; usually pwgen generated &#8211; password can truly be a pain. There are numerous methods of circumventing the password authentication protection, what we will be dealing with today is extracting the hashed password from a MikroTik backup file. First, download the required .deb packages for your Debian\/Ubuntu Linux here: mtpass-0.8_i386.deb mtpass-o.8_amd64.deb Or, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6,3,4,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.gaborhargitai.hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}