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I have a Netgear N600 wireless router. How can I recover my PPPoE from that device? The web interface only shows dots for the password...
Arne
Posted 2012-12-02T19:54:23.113
Reputation: 649
How to recover PPPoE password from Netgear N600?
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Usually the HTML source of the web interface provides the information, even when some display setting hides it. Sometimes it's not that easy, but for most devices I've seen, passwords are just in the source and can be found like this.
An example for an OpenWRT-enabled device here:
Right-click -> View source -> Ctrl+F -> "password"
<input type="password" [...] value="p4ssw0rdp4ssw0rd" />
gertvdijk
Posted 2012-12-02T19:54:23.113
Reputation: 3 396
You probably can't from the router itself, but you might be able to from the web browser if it was saved in the browser. What web browser are you using? – MaQleod – 2012-12-02T20:05:24.550
3In Configuration of router, under Maintenance -> select Backup Settings. Create a backup, open it in texteditor (e.g. notepad) and try to find user name for PPPoE, near could be a password. – week – 2012-12-02T20:05:56.583
2Does the HTML source reveal any value for the password field? – gertvdijk – 2012-12-02T20:28:08.383
@gertvdijk yes, it does indeed! :) – Arne – 2012-12-02T21:03:18.840
@week The config seems encrypted, I cannot even find the username. But gertvdijk's hint worked. – Arne – 2012-12-02T21:05:20.823