Hi guys - this is all in the name of interest of course.

Oh, and I specifically recommend NO-ONE even try this! This is purely
for the sake of interest. (There, now I have that disclaimer out of the
way... :-)

You can completely reset a Telecom M1122 without the admin password. You
need to get a working CLI cable and get into the monitor (Plug it in, m
then o - if that makes no sense then you need to learn how to get into
the monitor of the M1122 first - then come back :-)

The major problem is that with the Telecom routers, the 'Telecom'
password gets you napt-user access, not 'admin' access. Essentially all
we need to do is get admin access and then we can pluck out the telecom
management VCC details.

Anyway, get into the CLI, do a 'dir', find the '.pwd.cfg' file. In that
file is the cleartext password we need.

(As an aside, just try '[deleted by archive owner]' as your admin password, they might
all be the same and I might have (theoretically) wasted hours last night
playing with all this - but a google search didn't find that password
anywhere.)

Anyway, copy that file using a command like...

Copy .pwd.cfg pwdbak.cfg

It's important a) that your new name not start with a . And b) that it
does end with .cfg

Then reboot your router and let it boot fully. Log in as you normally
would to the CLI (probably with the 'Telecom' password) and do a dir.
You should see your new 'pwdbak.cfg' file - Issue this command.

Show config file pwdbak.cfg

If your router was setup the same way the one I was looking at was, you
will now have something like this in front of you.

M1122>show config file pwdbak.cfg
password user user
password bridge-user
password router-user
password pptp-user
password napt-user Telecom
password admin [deleted by archive owner]

I actually did all this backward by copying the pwd file and xgetting a
new password file that I created myself, then only afterwards thought of
just looking at the renamed password file.

The only way I found to actually look at the file on the router was
using the show 'config file filename.cfg' and it didn't work if the
filename had a period as the first character.

Anyway, write down the admin password, and try logging in with that to
the CLI (admin/pw). If all is well, you'll now be able to remove the
mngtvcc entries (no ip address etc) that are also unable to be removed
from the GUI (unless I missed it).

As an aside, the only way I found to actually change the password was
from the CLI. I don't think there's a way in the GUI.

Anyway, after I did all of this, I restored the Telecom images over top
and went back to my normal daily life. (Grin)

Maybe this is of interest to someone.

Cheers - Neil G

Ps. I also upgraded to the latest firmware from the ancient one that was
on there for all the extra features.. Not having admin access meant I
couldn't setup heaps of things - hence the want to find/change the admin
password.

Pps. I can't take much of the credit at all for this - but since it took
some finding, I thought I'd share. Take a look at
:http://security.nerdnet.com/forum/read.php?f=14&i=81&t=81

> Is it possible to ascertain for certain if a given M1122 is
> an ex rental (and how) plus is it possible to completely
> reset either an ex rental or standard retail back to factory
> settings? Is there anything in the Telecom ones that is
> completely unchangeable?
>
> (I have a working CLI cable)
>
> Cheers - Neil Gardner
>
>
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