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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 ...
Hello
I'm asking me who invented a feature to block a admin access, without having a possibility to disable such.
Anybody now can scan the net and search for Netgear NAS version 6.10 and block Admin access again and again.
It would be smart if there were at least a whitelist, but seems there is none.
With this feature active it becomes a nogo to update the firmaware before there is no better solution.
Karl
Karl-Heinz wrote:
Anybody now can scan the net and search for Netgear NAS version 6.10 and block Admin access again and again.
It would be smart if there were at least a whitelist, but seems there is none.I see the potential for a denial of service attack, but it seems to me that the main threat here is over the internet from remote clients. I'm not seeing how a whitelist would help that, since your own remote clients won't have a consistent IP address.
Personally I think the best approach is to not allow administrative access over the internet at all, and instead to use VPN. Then if you see attack like that, you'd trace it to the source (which you need to do anyway to fix the problem).
This 'feature' [sic] should be OPTIONAL! And, it should be defaulted to OFF! When you implement an intrusive feature, you don't shove it down our throats and cause problems.
Causes FAR more problems for users than it solves. PLUS it seems to have broken password change system as well as password recovery/reset. NEITHER are working properly.
Netgear... The monumental incompentance I've come to expect. Great equipment... But, wait! We WILL break it for you.
Steedvlx600 wrote:This 'feature' [sic] should be OPTIONAL! And, it should be defaulted to OFF! When you implement an intrusive feature, you don't shove it down our throats and cause problems.
The problem is that this feature implementation completely s***s. The locking should only happen for IP addresses which were found intrusive, not generically lock the acount affected.
One point worth mentioning: The admin account should (and must) not be used for data accesss (shared folders by SAMBA/FTP/...).
Agreed.
As in most of NG's 'feature' implementations, they use us to beta test for them and, then preen themselves by saying that "We listened" to community feedback... "and, fixed some egregious bugs that should never have been released to our customers."
No admin access for general use is always a good rule...although not always practical with the quirks found in ReadyNAS OS.
Network on M$ and Finder on MacOS consitently are denied (this or that operation) Admin access is often the only way to get around it.
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