PfSense working, but all logins fail

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Hi All,

I've gotten things relatively sorted out after the removal of an admin issue.  However, after working for a few hours, I can no longer login via any mechanism - console or webportal.  The WebPortal simple doesn't respond to the browser connection and the login on the console accepts the user name and then hangs.

However, everything else related to the firewall, NAT, and normal functions is still working.

That's a great way to lock down a firewall, and we used to do that with an old 1.0.9 Linux system - boot, start NAT/masquerad and firewall services and halt the kernel, but I doubt that's what's happening here.

Any guidance is very appreciated.