NTop password not working on latest RC

pwnell

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

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

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

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

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

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

pwnell

@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

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.