Most of you must be knowing by now that I bought the amazing Asus WL-500W router a few days back. This router builds on the great lineage it has in its predecessors, the WL-500g, WL-500g Deluxe, WL-500gP, WL-500gP v2 etc, and shines ahead with being much more than a router, rather a complete headless linux PC. Anyways, to the point. In most routers/modems, if you forget the password to your web-administration gui (which generally resides as 192.168.1.1), the only option left is to reset the router, thereby losing all your settings etc. But not so with this little beast. If you remember your ssh password (which BTW is available if you have installed a custom firmware on our router), then you can just login through it to your router and execute the following commands to save your skin:
nvram get http_passwd
This will display the current web administration password.
nvram set http_passwd=”NewPasswd”
This will set the new password. But remember that you have to enter another command (given below) to make sure that your new password is saved.
nvram commit
Now, just reboot and enjoy 
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hey man , the ASUS router sounds great. I would love to sneak a peek some time. I’ve been looking to get NSLU2 slug for some time, but no one keeps it in Nehru place.
a very imp. question:
can rtorrent be run on it?
@coolantz: You can drop by any time if you want to take a look (Send me an email through contact form). I was looking at NSLU2 as well earlier but then went for this because of integrated wi-fi, didn’t want to add more clutter to my already messy desk.
And yes, rtorrent can be run on it, though I’m using transmission right now. It comes with inbuilt clutch web ui and even command line interface (transmission-remote) which can be used to control torrents even remotely by connecting through web or over ssh.