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00sivan
Aspirant
Sep 18, 2022
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Lost Password During Restore

I have an R6300v2 and I backed it up so that I could factory restore for troubleshooting. Having logged in after the factory restore, I set the new password and it overwrote the password in Edge. The...
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    00sivan
    Sep 18, 2022

    Never mind. I found the old password was still saved in another browser.

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 18, 2022

And you might save off a new backup config that should now have the corrected or new admin password. 

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00sivan
Aspirant
Sep 18, 2022

Let me explain why a new backup doesn't work.

 

Create a backup -> Factory Restore -> Forced to Set a password (does not populate from browser) -> Perform troubleshooting/testing -> Restore from backup -> Edge Saved password no longer matches config file

 

Essentially, config files don't work with MS Edge unless you turn off automatic password storage. It's likely this could affect Chrome users in the near future if automatic password saving is enabled.