Ssh is not possible

rakeshvijayan

Hi Friends

I changed the admin password in my pfsense , Now I am not able to use ssh to pfsense form other machine what can I do retrieve it back please help me

Thanks

stephenw10

How did you change it?
Password changes must be done via the webgui otherwise things can get out of sync. Change it again via the webgui and you should be able to ssh on that account.

Steve

rakeshvijayan

By your suggestion I had changed the admiin password again result is the same please sea the password section in example . I thing it not allowing me to do ssh and I tried the wrong password it shows the same result why it show like this

hate@rivaus:~$ cd VirtualBox\ VMs/
hate@rivaus:~/VirtualBox VMs$ sudo tar -zcvf 12.04tar.gz 12.04
[sudo] password for hate:
12.04/
12.04/12.04.vbox
12.04/12.04.vdi
12.04/12.04.vbox-prev
12.04/Logs/
12.04/Logs/VBox.log.2
12.04/Logs/VBox.log
12.04/Logs/VBox.log.1
12.04/Logs/VBox.log.3
hate@rivaus:~/VirtualBox VMs$ ssh admin@10.0.0.1
Password:
Password:
Password:
admin@10.0.0.1's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
admin@10.0.0.1's password:

hate@rivaus:~/VirtualBox VMs$

stephenw10

Did you change it originally using passwd at the command line?

Steve

rakeshvijayan

I am not able to use passwd admin in command prompt ,its shows that no such user

stephenw10

I'm asking if that's how you tried to change it the first time because using passwd is not valid in pfSense.

Steve

rakeshvijayan

@stephenw10:

I'm asking if that's how you tried to change it the first time because using passwd is not valid in pfSense.

Steve

I use this way to change the admin password , Do I need to reset the password from the server by choosing the option 3 .If I do so any harm for my current configuration will cause ..

stephenw10

Reseting the password should not change any other configuration.

Can you login as root?

Steve

rakeshvijayan

@stephenw10:

Can you login as root?

Steve

yes steve I can login as root this is my entries

hate@rivaus:~$ ssh root@10.0.0.1
Password:
*** Welcome to pfSense 2.0.2-RELEASE-pfSense (i386) on m ***

WAN (wan) -> em0 -> ip
LAN (lan) -> fxp0 -> 10.0.0.1
10WAN (opt1) -> pppoe0 -> ip(PPPoE)

Logout (SSH only) 8) Shell

Assign Interfaces 9) pfTop

Set interface(s) IP address 10) Filter Logs

Reset webConfigurator password 11) Restart webConfigurator

Reset to factory defaults 12) pfSense Developer Shell

Reboot system 13) Upgrade from console

Halt system 14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)

Ping host

Enter an option:

why can't the admin is not activated on ssh , how can I login with admin

stephenw10

The admin and root accounts are effectively the same in pfSense, they should have the same password.
I'm not entirely sure what you have done. You are still able to login as root, presumably using the old password, have you tried the old password with the admin account?

Steve

rakeshvijayan

Thanks stive all are working fine thanks for your valuable suggestion