How to Enable Web admin via Telnet

[mdcoll25]

I depoyed some units without activating web access via the remote interface.
I have telnet access and have tried the procedure that dd-wrt have , but it doesnt work.

How to enable web admin if you are locked out ?

[Eric]

Sorry -- I didn't see this question before now (lots of questions right after I paid more attention to).

I assume you mean ssh access -- telnet is not active by default on OpenWrt. So, as I understand it, you're saying you've activated remote SSH but not the remote web interface.

Here is how to get the remote web interface active again, assuming you want to connect via https and the https server is running on port 443. Note that this procedure will only work on Gargoyle, not default OpenWRT. You need to add the following code to the end of /etc/config/firewall:

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config 'remote_accept' 'ra_https'
        option 'local_port' '443'  
        option 'remote_port' '443'
        option 'proto' 'tcp'     
        option 'zone' 'wan'

Then run:

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/etc/init.d/firewall restart

You should then be able to access the Gargoyle GUI remotely (on port 443).

[mdcoll25]

Thanks for this.
Unfortunately I'm a but of a thicky when it comes to linux commandline.
Can you tell me what to type to locate and add those lines to the end of the file specified ?

Cheers
Mike

[Eric]

after using ssh to login (putty if you're on windows), run

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vi [path_to_file_you_want_to_edit]

This will launch the vi editor. There are multiple guides on how to use vi -- just google "vi editor tutorial", and you should find what you need.

[islavchev]

What has to be done to achieve the same result for gargoyle 1.12.0?

[Lantis]

The instructions have not changed.