RouterPasswords has been listing factory default logins since 2005. It began with home routers, hence the name, and for most of its life it stuck mainly to them.
Today the list holds 1,868 default logins from 526 manufacturers, and while routers are still the bulk of it, you’ll also find IP cameras and network printers, along with UPS management cards and the remote management controllers built into servers.
To look up a login, search by manufacturer on the home page.
How an entry is checked
Before an entry goes up, we check it against the manufacturer’s own documentation, usually the user manual or a support article on the vendor’s website. A password remembered from a forum thread doesn’t count. Neither does one that appears on a dozen other password sites, because those sites copy each other and a typo travels just as far as a fact.
Firmware matters as much as the model. Hikvision IP cameras on firmware 5.2.0 or earlier accept admin and 12345, while newer ones won’t do anything until you’ve created a password yourself. Where a manufacturer changed its default partway through a product line, we list each version separately and say which firmware or generation it covers.
When there is no default
More and more hardware ships without one. For years Dell’s iDRAC server controllers came with the username root and a password that server admins know by heart. calvin. Most servers with iDRAC9 or iDRAC10 don’t use it any more. Each one gets its own password, printed on a tag on the machine.
On this site, 265 entries work that way, where the password is either unique to the unit or one you set yourself on first boot. We don’t make up a login to fill the gap. The entry reads “unique to your unit” or “you create this on first boot”, and there’s no copy button next to it, because there’s nothing to copy.
A blank is an answer too. Where an entry says “no password set”, the manufacturer shipped that field empty, and you leave it empty to log in.
Wi-Fi password or admin login?
The logins here open a device’s settings page. Your Wi-Fi password is a different thing, usually printed on its own label, and the two get mixed up constantly. Our guide to the difference explains which one you need. If it’s the Wi-Fi key you’re after, start with finding your Wi-Fi password.
Sending us a password
If you know a default we’re missing, add it here. A link to the manual or support page in the comments box helps a lot, since only a default that matches the manufacturer’s documentation gets published.
Please don’t send your own password. Most of what arrives through the form turns out to be somebody’s personal login, sent in the hope that we can recover it. We can’t. We delete those.
Why publish default passwords at all?
They’re public already. Manufacturers print them in manuals anyone can download, and people who break into devices for a living have kept lists like this for a very long time. In 2016 the Mirai botnet took over hundreds of thousands of cameras and home routers by trying a short list of factory logins over Telnet.
A site like this one doesn’t make that easier. An unchanged default does. So once you’re back in, change it, and write the new one down somewhere other than a sticker on the router.
Contact
If an entry is wrong, tell us through the contact form. The model number and firmware version are what help most. The same form handles press enquiries.