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change admin password
Trying to change admin password through "Advanced." When I go to old password box, Firefox/Mozilla shows warning that website is insecure. Is it possible to enter old admin password quickly and then immediately enter new admin password and confirm password and be safe?
> [...] When I go to old password box, Firefox/Mozilla shows warning
> that website is insecure. [...]
It would do that because it's worried about your sending some user
credentials over an unencrypted/insecure link ("http://" instead of
"https://"). The easy thing to do is ignore the warning, and proceed.
Presumably, you're talking to your own gizmo on your own LAN. If
someone can overlisten to that traffic, then you're already in big
trouble.
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> [...] When I go to old password box, Firefox/Mozilla shows warning
> that website is insecure. [...]
It would do that because it's worried about your sending some user
credentials over an unencrypted/insecure link ("http://" instead of
"https://"). The easy thing to do is ignore the warning, and proceed.
Presumably, you're talking to your own gizmo on your own LAN. If
someone can overlisten to that traffic, then you're already in big
trouble.Thank you, antinode, for such a quick response....and also putting it in perspective. The whole "router arena" was new territory for me.