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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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m1anh0
Aspirant
May 28, 2025

How is this solved? I am also getting this, in the absence of not being able to find the cause. There need to be a way of disabling this feature. Features like this should be optional, not enforced on the user. I have SSH access, can I change a value in the OS or a file to turn this feature off please.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
May 29, 2025
m1anh0 wrote:

How is this solved? I am also getting this, in the absence of not being able to find the cause. There need to be a way of disabling this feature. Features like this should be optional, not enforced on the user. I have SSH access, can I change a value in the OS or a file to turn this feature off please.

  1. Are you completely unable to log in to the web admin ui?
  2. Or is the issue the lockout after unsuccessful logins?
  3. Or is it the inactivity timeout after you log in?

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