Re:Please log in with router's password
by kelnos on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:08PM
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> Step 2 forces the default password to be changed. There is no way around that step.
Sure, and you can change that password to "foobar" or whatever bad password you want. And I bet that login page doesn't have any rate limiting or a lockout after too many failed logins.
Fortunately, though, I don't think there are any of these that enable remote admin by default, so the owner would need to do that explicitly. Hopefully they've paired that with a strong password. Even then, I still wouldn't advise anyone actually doing this...
(Your manual link is broken; it takes me to a page that just links to TP-Links main marketing website.)
Sure, and you can change that password to "foobar" or whatever bad password you want. And I bet that login page doesn't have any rate limiting or a lockout after too many failed logins.
Fortunately, though, I don't think there are any of these that enable remote admin by default, so the owner would need to do that explicitly. Hopefully they've paired that with a strong password. Even then, I still wouldn't advise anyone actually doing this...
(Your manual link is broken; it takes me to a page that just links to TP-Links main marketing website.)