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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 ...
I have gone through the recovery password procedure also with the same outcome notice of being locked out. I have also waited past the 5 minutes to attempt to login. I can only assume something else is going on. I am able to shh into the Nas with the recovery password sent.
I am also able to access and run apps that are loaded onto the Nas. Somehow admin login doesn't bring up the frontview interface.
PS. So I shutdown the NAS and waited the appropriate time to turn it back on. At the first opportunity I entered the recovery password and presto the admin page showed up.
How can this be avoided? Is there a configuration for the security to turn off the failed login attempt check or change it to after so many attempts then lock the admin account?
I haven't seen any configuration settings for the lockout and It is only supposed to last for 5 minutes.
FWIW, I haven't been locked out either with Chrome or Firefox, and I have been accessing the NAS admin page pretty frequently. HTTP admin is disabled, so my log ons are all using HTTPS.
After gaining access, I did what I wanted, changed the password and then logged out. After an hour I tried to gain access the Nas. Same problem, admin account is locked out.
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?
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