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harryrichardfoe
May 02, 2019Guide
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 ...
Steedvlx600
Jun 08, 2019Luminary
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.
schumaku
Jun 08, 2019Guru - Experienced User
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/...).
- Steedvlx600Jun 09, 2019Luminary
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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