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harryrichardfoe
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May 02, 2019
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Admin account locked out - constantly

Hello, I have recently upgraded to 6.10 on my Readynas 212 and have been constantly hampered by not being able to log into the admin account from Chrome. This occurs 90% of the time stating that too ...
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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    May 03, 2019
    Sandshark wrote:

    It sounds like something on your network is trying to connect with the wrong password.  Do you have a device you configured to auto login with the admin password that is now sending the wrong one periodically?

    I was wondering that too.  It fits the symptoms.

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StephenB
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May 02, 2019
harryrichardfoe wrote:

Hello, I have recently upgraded to 6.10 on my Readynas 212 and have been constantly hampered by not being able to log into the admin account from Chrome. This occurs 90% of the time stating that too many failed attempts have occurred and retry in 5 minutes.

Is this happening because you are entering the wrong password, or is something else going on?

 

6.10.0 did add a lockout feature - this was requested in the idea exchange, with the goal of slowing down an attacker who is trying to guess the admin password of the NAS.

 

https://kb.netgear.com/000060716/ReadyNAS-OS-6-Software-Version-6-10-0 wrote:
  • Multiple failed admin logins will lock the account for 5 minutes.

 

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