Tonight, when logging into my server, I got an "Invalid Username and password".  I know I hadn't changed my password (never had this issue in 8 years of running Unraid), and only changes I had messed within Unraid was installing a Tautulli docker yesterday.  When I got the error and tried logging in multiple times, it locked me out from too many attempts.  I followed the "Password Recovery" link on the login screen (pulled the Flash and did the Advanced fix).  And it worked fine.

 

Now an hour later, I sat down on PC to log back in and now it won't accept either my username or password again.  I can pull the flash drive again, but system is doing parity right now as I had to hard shut it down because I could only remote into the PC at the moment.  If I hard shut it down, and fix the password, I'm concerned it will just happen again.

 

I can't post diagnostics as I can't access, but any reason this is happening all of a sudden?

 

I've also tried the "root" login and a blank password.  But that didn't work either.

 

Edited November 16, 20241 yr by jljude

Not sure what could cause, I assume you also cannot login using the keyboard/monitor?

SOLVED: So, I removed the USB the second time, and instead of editing the /config/shadow file like I did the first time, I just deleted /Config/shadow and /config/smbpasswd and then when I set password, I didn't reuse the old one.

 

The first time, when prompted, I set new password same as old one.  Likely changing the password is what worked, but not sure.