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Changing main account password and how it's stored/updated on my router
10-04-2014 9:48 AM
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Hi there,
yesterday I changed my Plusnet account password via the account admin in the Member Centre (under portal.plus.net). After I'd entered the new password I was taken to a screen saying that if I was connected to the internet at that time, then my password would be automatically propagated to my router. Everything seemed to go fine, and when I opened a new browser window a few minutes later I was prompted (I believe/hope! by my router...) for my password. I tried entering my new account password and this wasn't accepted, but my old account password worked.
Two(ish) questions:
1) Pushing my new account password to my router after I change it online implies some kind of remote login to my router. I'm curious; how is this achieved? Is there some hidden login mechanism which allows remote access to my router? If so, how is it secured?
2) My router still seems to be storing my old account password. I know I can update it manually as described in http://www.plus.net/support/security/usernames_and_passwords/updating_passwords.shtml , but why did the new one not take effect despite appearing to as described above?
Thanks, and hope this makes sense
yesterday I changed my Plusnet account password via the account admin in the Member Centre (under portal.plus.net). After I'd entered the new password I was taken to a screen saying that if I was connected to the internet at that time, then my password would be automatically propagated to my router. Everything seemed to go fine, and when I opened a new browser window a few minutes later I was prompted (I believe/hope! by my router...) for my password. I tried entering my new account password and this wasn't accepted, but my old account password worked.
Two(ish) questions:
1) Pushing my new account password to my router after I change it online implies some kind of remote login to my router. I'm curious; how is this achieved? Is there some hidden login mechanism which allows remote access to my router? If so, how is it secured?
2) My router still seems to be storing my old account password. I know I can update it manually as described in http://www.plus.net/support/security/usernames_and_passwords/updating_passwords.shtml , but why did the new one not take effect despite appearing to as described above?
Thanks, and hope this makes sense
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Re: Changing main account password and how it's stored/updated on my router
10-04-2014 10:14 AM
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Hi CyclesWithBees,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Forums
We use a technology called TR069 which sends updates as and when we request it to, such as updates passwords, firmware upgrades if we so wish to.
The password updating is best effort - we've had a couple of issues where this has happened, an intermittent issue (Problem: 78323 - raised for internal investigation) - sorry that you appear to have been affected by this.
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Forums
We use a technology called TR069 which sends updates as and when we request it to, such as updates passwords, firmware upgrades if we so wish to.
The password updating is best effort - we've had a couple of issues where this has happened, an intermittent issue (Problem: 78323 - raised for internal investigation) - sorry that you appear to have been affected by this.
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10-04-2014 10:56 AM
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Cool, thanks for your prompt and helpful reply.
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