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Chokehold
May 30, 2016Aspirant
Admin account renamed after 6.5.0 upgrade
Hi, The administrator account that I entered upon resetting my device a good while ago (named it "Chokehold") has since I updated to 6.5.0 from 6.2.4 been changed to simply "admin". My files ...
mdgm-ntgr
May 30, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sounds like it is by design.
Anyway the local admin account has always been 'admin' (no quotes) whether or not ReadyCLOUD is used.
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