Remove Setup & Parent Lock PIN

**loonyharry** · 3rd October, 2011, 03:15 PM

Hi All,

If you need to have the PIN to unlock Setup & Parental Lock PINs, let me know.

You just need to send me a file and I can reply back with the PINS.

I have tested it out on a clone DM500 and able to rescan all my SH channels again.

It will work for all Dreamboxes.

**Starfug** · 12th February, 2012, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by loonyharry

Hi All,

If you need to have the PIN to unlock Setup & Parental Lock PINs, let me know.

You just need to send me a file and I can reply back with the PINS.

I have tested it out on a clone DM500 and able to rescan all my SH channels again.

It will work for all Dreamboxes.

Hi!

I need help.. Can help?

**haribo** · 12th February, 2012, 12:58 PM

if you need the pin..... try asking your parents..

**Starfug** · 12th February, 2012, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by haribo

if you need the pin..... try asking your parents..

I'm the parent

**DreamAsia** · 12th February, 2012, 09:15 PM

This was my scenario and what I did to get in :
A.) I did not know the telnet password of the box.
B.) Remote had setup PIN
Box : DM500C

The following are brief steps to keep the story short but you should be able to figure it out from there.

1. Installed Dreamup, did a BACKUP, this dumps the firmware including files (I think) on the box into a single backup file.

2. Used notepad to eyeball the backup file (careful not to edit if you really want to use it as a backup), of course full of gibberish, but somewhere (if you search, as in my case, for "auth") you will find maybe the account name eg. root and the password, last character of the password will be mangled due to the way the data is stored. You must use notepad or an editor that will not attempt to interprete some of the gibberish as formatting eg. wordpad/word etc. otherwise the editor will distort your view of the RAW data.

3. Armed with that info, telnet to the box and login (or trial and error the last character of the password till you get in.) Should not be too difficult.

4. Once you manage to login, go the the config of engima and checkout the config files using vi (be extremely careful not to edit or change anything) if you don't know how to use vi I strongly suggest you look it up first.

5. In one of the files you will find an entry with the PIN in hexadecimal value. Just take that value, key it into the windows scientific calculator and convert to decimal and there you have it the PIN

YOU NOW HAVE BOTH THE TELNET PASSWORD AND THE PIN.

Srry if you want the config filename or the specific entry in that file, I cannot remember it off the top of my head (google it .. you definitely will find references to it) as I did this long ago and am no longer using the box ... but then hey I did that the very first time I tried to get in the box to experiment with flashing and found it locked up .... so it can't be that hard (ok admittedly I do know abit of unix)

If everything I said above seem like foreign then maybe you are over your head ... ask someone to help you.

Hope the info helps !!!

**Starfug** · 13th February, 2012, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by DreamAsia

This was my scenario and what I did to get in :
A.) I did not know the telnet password of the box.
B.) Remote had setup PIN
Box : DM500C

The following are brief steps to keep the story short but you should be able to figure it out from there.

1. Installed Dreamup, did a BACKUP, this dumps the firmware including files (I think) on the box into a single backup file.

2. Used notepad to eyeball the backup file (careful not to edit if you really want to use it as a backup), of course full of gibberish, but somewhere (if you search, as in my case, for "auth") you will find maybe the account name eg. root and the password, last character of the password will be mangled due to the way the data is stored. You must use notepad or an editor that will not attempt to interprete some of the gibberish as formatting eg. wordpad/word etc. otherwise the editor will distort your view of the RAW data.

3. Armed with that info, telnet to the box and login (or trial and error the last character of the password till you get in.) Should not be too difficult.

4. Once you manage to login, go the the config of engima and checkout the config files using vi (be extremely careful not to edit or change anything) if you don't know how to use vi I strongly suggest you look it up first.

5. In one of the files you will find an entry with the PIN in hexadecimal value. Just take that value, key it into the windows scientific calculator and convert to decimal and there you have it the PIN

YOU NOW HAVE BOTH THE TELNET PASSWORD AND THE PIN.

Srry if you want the config filename or the specific entry in that file, I cannot remember it off the top of my head (google it .. you definitely will find references to it) as I did this long ago and am no longer using the box ... but then hey I did that the very first time I tried to get in the box to experiment with flashing and found it locked up .... so it can't be that hard (ok admittedly I do know abit of unix)

If everything I said above seem like foreign then maybe you are over your head ... ask someone to help you.

Hope the info helps !!!

Hey... Thanks for your advice.... I managed to get the pin thru FTP to the box and see the config file..

Thanks once again

**kokoronikui** · 19th February, 2012, 07:17 AM

IMO, this is a waste of time. If dreamup can backup your box's image, you can also flash a fresh one inside. This method is useless if the supplier disabled the RS232 connector on the box as well..