How to View Mikrotik Winbox Password

How to View Mikrotik Winbox Password

Forgot Username and Password Mikrotik? Forgot your Username and Password in Winbox Mikrotik? If the answer is yes, then you are in the right place. Because in this article I will discuss How to know your Username and Password Winbox Mikrotik forgotten it.

There are two conditions which we usually forget the password Mikrotik:

1. Forget your Username and Password Winbox Mikrotik that have not been in the save on Winbox

2. Username and Password Forgot Winbox Mikrotik already in the save on Winbox.

Here we will discuss the second condition, where previously we’ve been storing login data Mikrotik us on Winbox with Winbox Save on the menu.

Results of data storage we’ve saved login will appear at the bottom of Winbox, such as the Address field, User, and Note as shown below:

My case and you may experience also is that I forgot the Mikrotik Router Password. Despite the fact that I can log in with the stored data without the password, and can change his password when already logged in Winbox. However, I am still curious about that I forgot the password.

Well, that I will discuss How to Know the Password Winbox Mikrotik by opening its data from Winbox savings.

How to Know the Password Winbox Mikrotik is as follows:

1. Open Winbox Mikrotik -> Click the Tools button … -> Export Addresses …

How to View Mikrotik Winbox Password

How to View Mikrotik Winbox Password

2. Select a folder where you will store its export file -> Give the file name of its export -> Save

3. Open the folder where you store earlier in Windows Explorer -> Open With Notepad++

4. Appears Winbox login data stored in the format as shown below:

From the picture above, we can see:

1. IP Address Mikrotik (yellow label)

2. Username Mikrotik (pink label)

3. Password Mikrotik (brown label)

I hope it was a useful article.

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Juan — 6 May 2020

Hi. Does this work actually? Because I followed procedure and tha only thing I got on Notepad++ is: À¾ Thank you

fadıl (post author) — 10 May 2020

Hello there, It works if you step by step. The steps in the article were tried and the results were obtained.