Password protect the console menu, but i can't log in

emel_punk · May 4, 2013, 6:34 AM

hi

i decide to add some security to my pfsense on lab, and i activate the option system> advanced> Console Options (+) Password protect the console menu. So i connect keyboard and tried to login, but now root/pfsense or admin/pfsense are incorrect login. But the funny thing is that with ssh, does work with default pfsense pass.

whats going on??

whats the password? got pfsense 2.0.3

stephenw10 · May 4, 2013, 12:09 PM

Why are you still using the default password? The first time you log in to the webgui the wizard asks you to change it.
Try changing the password via the webgui and see if that allows you to log in.

Steve

emel_punk · May 4, 2013, 5:42 PM

I did not change it with the wizard the first time. So i am still using the default.

jimp · May 6, 2013, 2:28 PM

It uses the root/admin password for the console login.

You're not the first person to say the console password didn't work for them, but every time I've tried it here, it always works, even with the default password.

Try changing the password in the GUI as stephenw10 suggested, even if you change it to something else and then back to pfsense, to see if it makes a difference.

emel_punk · May 8, 2013, 3:00 AM

Nope. i did that. i change it with the gui, nothing. I try root/mypassword admin/password even i disable it, when to console and execute passwd command, and nothing..

I got pfsense 2.0.3

jimp · May 9, 2013, 6:10 PM

Is the admin account disabled/expired in the GUI?
Have the permissions of the admin account been altered?

emel_punk · May 11, 2013, 2:31 AM

No, the account hasn't been modified from the factory default configuration. i just add some "security" to the tty. The funny thing is that i can log ing via ssh and web with the password i did change on web.

jimp · May 11, 2013, 1:33 PM

Why would you edit the tty? Put it back to the original settings.

emel_punk · May 14, 2013, 1:37 PM

So i cannot? it lacks of security so i check the box at Systems > Advanced > Password protect the console menu

jimp · May 14, 2013, 1:42 PM

What you posted before implied that you manually edited /etc/ttys to change the tty. Checking the box is safe, manually editing the tty config is not.

emel_punk · May 14, 2013, 5:00 PM

No, i didn't edit tty manually i fact i don't know how to. i did checked the box

emel_punk · May 14, 2013, 6:58 PM

Well i don't know what was the problem, but i re-establish the whole "/etc/" from the pfsense install CD. and it worked…
:o