NAS Login Password is reverting to previous password after being changed

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chris_modica wrote:

Do you happen to know of any password issues that any of the past firmware updates have addressed?

 

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I'm not seeing any linked to AD, though there are several AD bugs that have been addressed:

• 6.5.2 Fixed a bug in the Kerberos library that could cause Active Directory connections to hang.
• 6.6.0 Fixed an issue where ADS groups would show a GID instead of the group name in the GUI on new shares.
• 6.6.0 Adjusted the ADS realm name restrictions to allow number based labels.
• 6.7.1 ADS environment performance.
• 6.8.0 GUI performance issues in ADS mode with trusted domains when using share-level ACLs.
• 6.9.0 Home directory creation in ADS mode will now be skipped for machine accounts.
• 6.9.1 Fixed an issue where anonymous connections to guest-enabled shares may fail in ADS mode.
• 6.9.1 Fixed an issue where ADS authentication may fail to work during the first boot after updating to 6.9.0.
• 6.9.1 Fixed a GUI offline issue after joining ADS where the domain contained a group named "users".

The list of bugs in the release notes is not complete though.

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chris_modica wrote:

but our customer's policy is not to.

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If they care about network security, you could search the release notes and get a list of CVEs and other security updates to them fairly quickly (perhaps using "readynas OS 6 software version" CVE site:kb.netgear.com as a search string).  That might motivate them to reconsider their policy.

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chris_modica wrote:

When we tried to login again to the NAS Administrator page though, we found that the recently changed password did not work, and it was only possible to login with the old login password. It seems as though the new login password was rewritten to the previous password.

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Did you try resetting the local admin password in the NAS again, to see if it sticks this time?