Hi Marcus, You were lucky in that somebody was very lax when setting up the router in the first place ;o)
It is generally considered very bad practice to leave the router set up with the ³default² user name and password (in this case ³admin²) - as it lets anyone access your router and, as you found, see the setup and even change it! Of course, if someone HAD set it up securely, with a new ID and PW, you would have needed to know them to see the wifi setup! Otherwise you would have been left with a ³reset to factory² and then set everything up from scratch again. Until biometric security (or some superseding technology) becomes standard, that is the ongoing catch 22 for us all we need good passwords for security and we are in strife if we forget them! Password managers can help provided you don¹t forget the master password!!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/9/16 20:23, Marcus F Harris at cryptodo...@me.com wrote: > Hi Ronni again, > Just to let you know that the keychain didn¹t reveal the password for the > wifi, probably because the router/wifi is an Asus. > Anyway, a colleague was able to tell me how to get into the Asus from the > iMac, whereupon I found the password and all is now ok > Maybe for future reference for a WAMUG user, > Asus Router/Wifi > 192.168.1.1 > ID admin > PW admin > wireless page reveals all including password for the wifi > cheers > > > Marcus > > cryptodo...@me.com > Marcus F Harris > cryptodo...@me.com > iMac 27D Late 2009 > OS10.9.5 > 3 GHz Intel Duo Core > 8Gb Ram > > MACBOOK PRO [2009] > PROCESSOR 2.53 GHZ INTEL 2 DUO > L2 CACHE 4GB MEM 1067 MHZ DDRS > GRAPHICS CARD GEFORCE9400M 256 MB > FUJITSU 250GB HD JOURNALED HFS+ > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Marcus F Harris <cryptodo...@me.com> >> Subject: Re: Resetting wifi password on iPd Mini >> Date: 3 September 2016 at 12:12:26 PM AWST >> To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> >> Reply-To: wa...@wamug.org.auhi Ronni >> My friend has an iMac and an iPad mini, so I suppose she has an Apple >> Wireless Network. >> However her router/wifi is another make so I will check that out later today. >> I¹ll try to recover her password from the keychain first of all. >> If that doesn¹t work I guess I¹ll have to work out how to get into her >> router/wifi. >> I¹ll let you know. >> Thanks very much >> >> Marcus >> Marcus Harris >> P.O. Box 7135 >> Marcus Harris >> Shenton Park >> Western Australia 6008 >> Australia >> Cryptodome Pty Ltd >> cryptodo...@me.com >> Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 2 Sep 2016, at 5:00 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Marcus, >>> >>> If it¹s a Apple Wireless Network: >>> "When you enter a WEP, WPA2, or other encryption key or passphrase in Mac OS >>> X, it¹s stored in the Keychain. >>> You can run Keychain Access (found inside /Applications/Utilities/) to >>> delete entries you no longer wish to store or to retrieve passwords that you >>> have forgotten. >>> Keychain passwords are secured with your Mac OS X user password." >>> >>> If you need to change the Network¹s Password: >>> Change your Wireless Network¹s name and password >>> 1. Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications >>> folder. >>> 2. In the graphical overview >>> <https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=link&apdid=aprt3bb53acf&vie >>> wlocale=en_US&bookId=Airport%20Utility%20HelpPP409> , select the base >>> station you want to configure, then click Edit. You may need to enter a >>> password for the base station. >>> 3. Click Wireless. >>> 4. Do any of the following: >>>> * Change the wireless network name: Enter a new name in the Wireless >>>> Network Name field. >>>> * Change the wireless password: Enter your new password in the Wireless >>>> Password and Verify Password fields. >>> 5. If you want the wireless password to be remembered in your OS X >>> keychain >>> <https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=link&apdid=aprt8caccd20&vie >>> wlocale=en_US&bookId=Airport%20Utility%20HelpPP409> , select ³Remember >>> this password in my keychain.² >>> 6. To save your changes, click Update. >>> >>> If it¹s another Wireless Network you will need to supply details for anyone >>> to help. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >>> >>> El Capitan OS X 10.11.6 >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 2 Sep 2016, at 11:43 AM, Marcus F Harris <cryptodo...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I¹m sure this will have been addressed somewhere in the past, but please >>>> point me to a solution. >>>> >>>> A senior citizen friend has reset her iPad Mini in an attempt to solve a >>>> problem transferring photos on it to her iMac running Maverick OS. >>>> That problem prior to reset was a message -³Unable to transfer to Photo as >>>> the device is locked² Her 4 digit password wouldn¹t unlock that and the >>>> message kept repeating. Can I come back to that problem later because >>>> >>>> As a result of resetting her iPad Mini, the wifi needs reconnecting, but >>>> she¹s forgotten her password. >>>> We tried all her passwords, then the codes on the back of the router/modem >>>> without success. >>>> >>>> Is the only solution to access the router and reset the passord, or is >>>> there a simpler workaround? >>>> If I have to reset her modem is that straitforward? >>>> >>>> BY THE WAY I don¹t think her iPad Mini is right up to date but has iOS 9 >>>> something. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> >>>> Marcus >>>> Marcus Harris >>>> P.O. Box 7135 >>>> Marcus Harris >>>> Shenton Park >>>> Western Australia 6008 >>>> Australia >>>> Cryptodome Pty Ltd >>>> cryptodo...@me.com >>>> Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 >>>
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