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ReadyNAS users and https interface
The NAS is ReadyNas 212 with firmware 6.10.10.
Can ordinary users with no particular privilege - the users created to access the shares via SMB - access the https interface and change their password on their own?
So far I could access the interface with the /admin URL and with the admin user and with another user belonging to the admin group. I could not access the interface with a user not belonging to the "admin" group. Curiously enough if the user belonging to the admin group changes his password, then his credentials don't work right away: a message is showed telling the account has been locked, due to too many failed attempts and suggesting to re-login after 5 minutes.
How the whole thing is supposed to work?
Thanks in advance!
Andrea
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AppLEaDaY wrote:
Can ordinary users with no particular privilege - the users created to access the shares via SMB - access the https interface and change their password on their own?
Only an admin can change the password on the local NAS accounts.
AppLEaDaY wrote:
Curiously enough if the user belonging to the admin group changes his password, then his credentials don't work anymore: a message is showed telling the account has been locked, due to too many failed attempts and suggesting to re-login after 5 minutes.
Is the PC set up to remember the password? It might be re-applying it.
Keep in mind that the user credential for the NAS does not have to be the same credential used to log into the PC. Since the NAS credential is only used on the local network, it might not need to be changed very often.
It's not well documented, but yes you can. Go to https://<NAS IP>/my_password/.
StephenB wrote:
AppLEaDaY wrote:Curiously enough if the user belonging to the admin group changes his password, then his credentials don't work anymore: a message is showed telling the account has been locked, due to too many failed attempts and suggesting to re-login after 5 minutes.
Is the PC set up to remember the password? It might be re-applying it.
Upon accessing /admin a sort of popup appears with something filled in, but I enter the user name and the new password manually. Anyway I modified my text to tell the new credentials don't work right away, but they do work later on - at least this is what I remember.
Thanks!
The information about that is here: https://kb.netgear.com/23809/How-do-I-change-the-password-of-my-ReadyNAS-user-account-on-my-ReadyNAS-OS-6-storage-system, though the listed URL is wrong and I had to do some experimenting to find the right one. I don't know if the URL given did work originally and they made a change in some OS update or if the article has always been wrong.
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