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  • How to Recover MikroTik User Password

    MikroTik Wiki and Forum say that there is no way to recover MikroTik user password without losing MikroTik configuration. But if you have an unencrypted configuration file backup taken before, you will be able to recover your user password using MikroTik password recovery tools. How to Backup and Restore MikroTik configuration file manually was discussed in my previous article. I also discussed how to backup MikroTik configuration file automatically via Mail in another article and in this article I will show how to recover forgotten user password using MikroTik configuration file backup. Recover MikroTik User Password using Configuration File Backup If you have a practice to store MikroTik configuration file backup regularly, you will be able to recover your MikroTik user password if you forget unfortunately. There are two methods to recover MikroTik user password from unencrypted configuration file backup. Recover MikroTik password using online password recovery tool Recover MikroTik password using Linux password recovery tool Recover MikroTik Password using Online Password Recovery Tool If you have an unencrypted backup file, you can easily recover your user password using MikroTik Password Recovery Online Tool. The following steps will show how to recover MikroTik user password using online password recovery tool. [...]

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    Backup and Restore feature in MikroTik Router helps to recover router configuration when running router fails to operation due to hardware failure. If you have a backup copy of your failed router and purchase a new MikroTik Router and then upload and restore that backup file, you will get your running network without any hassle. MikroTik Backup file is also useful when you unfortunately forget your admin privilege user password. You can easily recover your forgotten password with backup file [...]

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