NTop password not working on latest RC

pwnell · Jun 19, 2011, 4:25 PM

I have just installed nTop on the latest RC of pfSense 2 and it is asking me for a username/password for certain pages. When I type in "admin" and the password I set in nTop Settings, it does not work - it asks me for my password again. What must I do?

siddharth · Jun 22, 2011, 2:53 PM

Same here. I tried with username 'admin' and password 'admin' and that worked. Couldn't even change the password through the web interface or the command line (ntop -u root -A returns without prompting).

pfSense 2.0-RC3

jimp · Jun 22, 2011, 4:09 PM

I tried this the other day and had an issue as well. It would appear that ntop's own command didn't work when run from the command line:

ntop --set-admin-password=blah

I tried that when ntop was running and when it was stopped.

It needs some more investigation, could be a permissions issue or something else about the command changed.

jimp · Jun 22, 2011, 8:52 PM

I just committed some fixed for ntop, I found the problem.

You can't change the password while ntop is running. I restructured the code a bit so now it tries to stop ntop, wait 20 seconds for it to shutdown cleanly, then it changes the password and restarts ntop.

I also fixed up a few other areas in the code that were iffy/not working/not proper.

pwnell · Jun 22, 2011, 9:24 PM

Yeah I did stop ntop, and ran this yesterday:


[2.0-RC2][admin@fw.home]/root(8): /usr/local/bin/ntop --set-admin-password=admin
Sun Jun 19 09:41:51 2011  NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
Sun Jun 19 09:41:51 2011  Initializing gdbm databases
Sun Jun 19 09:41:51 2011  Setting administrator password...
Sun Jun 19 09:41:51 2011  Admin password set...

But it did not make any difference.

jimp · Jun 22, 2011, 9:26 PM

You also have to remove the password database for ntop before setting it (forgot to mention that, it's already in the code)

pwnell · Jun 22, 2011, 10:54 PM

@jimp:

You also have to remove the password database for ntop before setting it (forgot to mention that, it's already in the code)

Your fix did it - thanks. Just curious, the original reason I wanted this to work is to see the Hosts Map. It asks me for a new Google API key to be created. What URL do I use? I access nTop via http://192.168.0.10:3000/ - so should I use that? If I do it still tells me the host key is wrong. If you are the wrong person to ask just tell me and I'll ask on the nTop forums.

jimp · Jun 23, 2011, 12:28 AM

I'm not sure about that. I don't recall what it wants in there, though I thought it wanted a hostname, not an IP address.