SOLVED Recovering access to Web UI

ChuckMcM

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Hi all,

My system paniced and I went to log into the Web UI from Firefox and it doesn't work. It says "username and password combination are invalid". I had made an account with my credentials that was admin and it didn't work. So I tried root and root's password. That didn't work either. So I hooked up a monitor and keyboard and used option 7 to change roots password, that claimed to have worked but the UI still would not take it. So I used sqlite3 to open up the database and look at the bsd_users table, then I changed the password for root again and verified that the encrypted text changed in this table, and tried again and it still doesn't take it. Needless to say this is very puzzling. Any pointers on what to try next would be appreciated...

--Chuck
 

ChuckMcM

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Ok, false alarm. Further inspection showed my crappy USB keyboard has the 'numlock' key stuck and so it was injecting some numbers in unexpected places. Whew.
 
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