I had my old WRT54G router messed with last time by some irate neighbour, and I decided that I needed to password-protect it.  So, after I picked up another router (I'm still trying to de-brick the last one) I decided to compile the firmware with all the options turned on.  Now, I have a working router, except for the fact that when I telnet it, it asks me for a username and password.

What makes matters worse is that it was running new firmware before, and I couldn't turn on the boot_wait.

Is there anything else I could try first before debricking it and transferring new firmware?  To prevent this in the future, where in buildroot would I shove a /etc/passwd file?

After looking through the forums for a solution to the problem, this is what I found:

http://www.openwrt.org/forum/viewtopic. … debricking

Also, I created a passwd file in /buildroot/sources/openwrt/root/etc/.  Does this correspond to /etc on the router?  Once I put a new image on, will this be read?