Factory reset

[oatcake51]

Hi All,

I configured my Pineapple about 12 months ago, after playing it went in to a cupboard and forgot about it. I've just dug it out and I've forgotten the username and password , so I can't connect to the admin or ssh interfaces.

Can I do a hard factory reset?

Oatcake51

[bored369]

Yes:

http://wiki.wifipineapple.com/#!reset.md

[gigawatts]

Dead link, can you please provide instructions or a new link? web.archive.org doesn't know how to handle the hashbang in that url

Thanks!

[gigawatts]

Figured out how to do it. I'll document the procedure here for anyone else looking to do the same thing.

• Downloaded the latest Mark 4 firmware from https://www.wifipineapple.com/downloads
• Boot into recovery mode by holding reset until it reboots, then letting go shortly after. The WPS led blinks rapidly if you did it correctly.
• Connect to the pineapple via ethernet, set your computer's ethernet interface IP to 192.168.1.2 (or anything else in the 192.168.1.x network) and subnet mask to 255.255.255.0
• telnet to 192.168.1.1
• Transfer the upgrade-x.x.x.bin file to /tmp/ on the pineapple by running a wget on the pineapple to the bin file hosted on a web server on your computer. wget http://192.168.1.2/upgrade-2.8.1.bin
• Run sysupgrade -n -v /tmp/upgrade-2.8.1.bin and wait for it to finish flashing and reboot on its own.
• You should now be able to login to the pineapple with the default user/pass of root/pineapplesareyummy

Hopefully this helps someone else :)

[Mr-Protocol]

Here is how to clean flash the Mark 4.

http://mr-protocol.blogspot.com/2013/12/wifi-pineapple-mark-iv-clean-flash-uart.html

My additional instructions from what once was the official wiki entry.

If you just forgot the password, you could hookup UART and just reset it through there (using passwd) without needing a flash.