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    Introducing Netgate Nexus: Multi-Instance Management at Your Fingertips.

    Pfsense Authentication on second device from HA

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      martinaz
      last edited by

      Hello,
      I have a dummy question, I don't know if this is normal or if I need to do something else.

      I have configured HA on my Pfsense firewalls and set auth login with LDAP. I can log in with my username and pass from LDAP on the primary firewall, but on the secondary device, I can log in only with an admin pass. (the username and pass from LDAP doesn't work, I mention that the cluster works because is doing the replication): Is this a normal behavior for the secondary device?

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire @martinaz
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        @martinaz If you mean the HA config sync, I also found it only works with "admin" even though there is a field to type in the username.

        To upgrade, select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings. When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to reboot, or more depending on packages, CPU, and/or disk speed.
        Only install packages for your version of pfSense.
        Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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          martinaz
          last edited by

          No, when i want to login via GUI to the second device I can;t use the username and LDAP pass works only with local admin

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            SteveITS Galactic Empire @martinaz
            last edited by

            @martinaz ah. I have not set that up. Note not everything syncs in HA…there is a list of checkboxes to sync, but you might double check the second router that the LDAP auth is actually configured.

            To upgrade, select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings. When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to reboot, or more depending on packages, CPU, and/or disk speed.
            Only install packages for your version of pfSense.
            Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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              martinaz
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              @SteveITS
              The config is set on both devices also the checkboxes are checked, for example, if I failover the secondary device and make it primary, I can login in on the secondary pfsense with ldap . The issue that I have now is that I can;t login GUI on the secondary pfsense devices using LDAP account works only with local user but this issue is only secondary devices.

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                martinaz
                last edited by

                @SteveITS Solved the issue.

                After reboot works on both devices.
                Thanks a lot for your support!

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