Lost Dreambox Login and Password

**canofan** · 12-09-2008

I wanted to login to my Dreambox and found that the login information had been changed. I have no clue to what they may be.
Any ideas other than a factory reset as I do not want to lose the actual setup.
Thanks

**dig deep** · 12-09-2008

What dreambox ? and are You cardsharing ??

**canofan** · 13-09-2008

Originally Posted by dig deep

What dreambox ? and are You cardsharing ??

Hi thanks for responding.
It is a Dreambox 7000S with PVR and var on USB.
Yes I am Card Sharing.

**HB13DISH** · 13-09-2008

Originally Posted by canofan

Hi thanks for responding.
It is a Dreambox 7000S with PVR and var on USB.
Yes I am Card Sharing.

If you have Tux Commander installed, then you can browse the files and there is a subfolder with the password details there.
If you don't have it installed already, dl and install from the blue button > addons > Gemini server > Plugins > select Tuxcom and install it.
Then it is available fom the blue button > plugins.
Hope that this helps.

**canofan** · 13-09-2008

Originally Posted by HB13DISH

If you have Tux Commander installed, then you can browse the files and there is a subfolder with the password details there.
If you don't have it installed already, dl and install from the blue button > addons > Gemini server > Plugins > select Tuxcom and install it.
Then it is available fom the blue button > plugins.
Hope that this helps.

very resourceful as usual HB13DISH.
I shall do.
Thanks again

**HB13DISH** · 13-09-2008

Originally Posted by canofan

very resourceful as usual HB13DISH.
I shall do.
Thanks again

Thanks. Just let us know if it works for you.

**canofan** · 13-09-2008

I could not find the folder with passwd. I found a command with passwd in ETC but the page is empty and is an invitation.
Could you have more precision?

**HB13DISH** · 13-09-2008

Originally Posted by canofan

I could not find the folder with passwd. I found a command with passwd in ETC but the page is empty and is an invitation.
Could you have more precision?

I checked my box and I have the following file in
/var/etc/passwd
It has four lines with all kind of info which I don't understand, but it starts with root
It doesn't show my real default password : dream
So I guess this is not that helpful after all. Sorry.

P3t3r_2 · 13-09-2008

You are on the right track,

Once you have located the file passwd (not the one with passwd-) with tuxcom, press 4 on remote to go into edit mode.
The first line is root:*****:0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh

where the ****** delete it (by using remote arrows to move cursor right and then pressing volume minus)
delete *** until upto :0:0:root

and press ok and exit -> save

the first line should look like this after the edit
root::0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh

then login with user root and password leave empty

you could telnet and change the empty password with your own so known can easily hack into your dm box.

**HB13DISH** · 13-09-2008

Thanks P3t3r_2 for this useful information.
AFAIK, this is the first time that anyone has shown us how to reset the password of the Dreambox using Tux Commander.

But canofan mentioned that there was no data in this file, so how do you account for that?

@ canofan,
Hope that this method works for you.
You will find that using a USB keyborad with your 7000S much easier to navigate and input data than using the remote.
As you are using a USB flash for the var, then just use a 4 port USB hub for both.

**canofan** · 13-09-2008

Actually the page P3t3r_2refers to is as he said.
Thanks. This allows me to access my box through my internal network without password. And I shall set a new password once I am there. Ithis does not work I'll use telnet.

cesco · 09-10-2008

thanks for everyone for the useful info re password but the thing is that i don't want to reset the password i just want to confirm it and write it down somewhere so i will not loose it again.
i managed to go var/etc/passwd but then on the root line i found a very long line full of letters and nos. how can i convert this to the correct password pls?

thanks in advance for your help

rgds
cesco

**HB13DISH** · 10-10-2008

Originally Posted by cesco

thanks for everyone for the useful info re password but the thing is that i don't want to reset the password i just want to confirm it and write it down somewhere so i will not loose it again.
i managed to go var/etc/passwd but then on the root line i found a very long line full of letters and nos. how can i convert this to the correct password pls?

thanks in advance for your help

rgds
cesco

Post #9 shows you how to do it.
Either you know the password or you don't.
If you know it, then you can login using an FTP application, etc.
If you don't know it, then you need to reset it.

***compufunk*** · 10-10-2008

Originally Posted by HB13DISH

Thanks P3t3r_2 for this useful information.
AFAIK, this is the first time that anyone has shown us how to reset the password of the Dreambox using Tux Commander.

You must have missed this one HB13DISH

This was all covered here a while back,

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellit...ont-know.html?

P3t3r_2 · 12-10-2008

Hello to everyone

First of all sorry to Legless i didn't know there was a post which covered the password reset before.

For cesco, there are many ways to get into a dreambox without resetting the password. eg.

1) New user (Will cover)
2) Brute/hack (I will not cover this as its illegal)
3) Backdoors (Again will not cover)

If I am breaking any rules to the forum, I am sorry and please remove this post asp.

The main reason people have a password on the dreambox is to keep hackers out

or card share server providers to keep people out of the cam configs.

But with Tux Commander you can still have access to cam config with password not known. This is why I will cover on how to gain access (local) to a dreambox without resetting password...

Step 1:
use Tux Commander to locate the passwd file ( location: /var/etc/passwd)

Step 2:
Insert a new line after the first line root:****:0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh
and write this (replace <name_user> with a user eg. Pete)

<name_user>::0:0:<name_user>:/home/root:/bin/sh

so lines should look like

root:****:0:0:root:/home/root:/bin/sh (Line 1)
Pete::0:0:Pete:/home/root:/bin/sh (Line 2)

Step 3:
save.

That's it! Now login via ftp or web interface user <Pete> password empty!

(You can remove the user by removing the line added!)

Bye

azraeil · 13-10-2008

I'm on a card sharing server and I'm pretty sure I can't even download the TuxBox add-on (If I go to add-on, I cannot find any other option, no Gemini Server etc). Am I correct that the only thing left to get my dreambox back is to re-flash it? I have also found out that my box is a fake/clone (based on it's Mac address, the box was provided by the "satellite provider" here). I'm a really really really newbie on this stuff and I've read the Idiot's Guide (which was extremely helpful to this idiot) but I'm pretty much stuck at trying to get the password reset. I've downloaded DreamupLan and downloaded Gemini 4.2 (as I've read that downloading 4.3 and above will kill my fake dreambox).

Am I on the right path here? Thanks for all your help, masters and Sifus.

**mhku** · 13-10-2008

If you change your password your CS may stop working.

What image are you using? And welcome to the forum

azraeil · 13-10-2008

I'm not sure what image I have. I'll go back home and take a note of it (ermm how do I go about doing that in the first place?)

About the CS not working, I suspect as much. I guess, if that is the case, the only way forward for me is to pay the 600 bucks to the "satellite provider" to continue watching my HBO's and MSNBC ... damn. At the moment all the premium channels are not working while all FTA are okay. Need to cough-up some money coz I miss my MSNBC especially this close to the election ...

**HB13DISH** · 13-10-2008

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**HB13DISH** · 13-10-2008

Originally Posted by compufunk

You must have missed this one HB13DISH
This was all covered here a while back,

http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellit...ont-know.html?

Yes I did miss it. Thanks.

I think that a user friendly tutorial about Lost Passwords should be included in the Idiot Guide, as members keep asking about it in new threads.
Just checked and I didn't find one.

**mhku** · 13-10-2008

I think that a user friendly tutorial about Lost passwords should be included in the Idiot Guide

Well volunteered

**canofan** · 13-10-2008

Originally Posted by P3t3r_2

Step 1:
use Tux Commander to locate the passwd file ( location: /var/etc/passwd)

I have two passwd lines:
one with a little dot just after the d and one without.
does this make any sense?
another question: could the user name have been changed as well?

**mhku** · 13-10-2008

Can you provide a screenshot (details in the Idiot's Guide).

**T_G** · 13-10-2008

Originally Posted by HB13DISH

Yes I did miss it. Thanks.
I think that a user friendly tutorial about Lost Passwords should be included in the Idiot Guide, as members keep asking about it in new threads.
Just checked and I didn't find one.

You didn't find it because you didn't write it yet

Go on, do the right thing

**HB13DISH** · 13-10-2008

Originally Posted by T_G

You didn't find it because you didn't write it yet

Go on, do the right thing

I didn't loose my password so I have no idea what this is all about.

Any volunteers?

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