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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

Can you elaborate on your suggestion? I must be missing something.

 

How will making a new backup prevent Edge from saving the new password that you are forced to set when you factory restore?