I reluctantly abanded tftp in favor of ssh as the openwrt instructions suggest. I liked tftp because there was no password to loose.

I like being able to play with my router remotely but I'm thinking I should not have ssh running on port 22. Furthermore I should probably use a stronger password and move  from port 22 to something else less obvious. Someone said their port 22 gets attached every 2 minutes!

What is the consequence of forgetting a openwrt/ssh root password?  Or mucking up firewall.user to change the port from 22 to something else? According to http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=4856 I have to edit /etc/init.d/S50dropbear too. What would happen if I did not get this correct? Would I brick my wrt54g that is now irreplacable? Or is there a reset button to restore the defaults?

Yikes!

Thanks,
Siegfried

Unless you are in a location where your wrt is only accessible via the public internet, why not just restrict ssh to the private network? For that matter, I don't even put a public address on my wrt's, but this requires dhcp and/or nat upstream and may not be feasible for the 'home' user.

Boot to failsafe
>mount_root
>passwd  (or just rm passwd)

- DL

(Last edited by dl on 19 Mar 2006, 00:54)

tftp?  Or are you referring to telnet?

Cheers,
Martin.