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Campus
Luminary
Feb 16, 2018

Changing Time Machine settings resets admin password

When enabling or disabling the global Time Machine feature my RN716 with 6.9.2 somewhat forgets the admin password. The popup dialog comes up but does not accept the previously accepted password. Res...
Time Machine
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Feb 21, 2018
Campus wrote:

Resetting the password via ssh and "passwd admin" resolves the problem.

Changing the password that way probably won't stick. After doing that you should try changing the admin password using the GUI again. A change using the GUI should stick.

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