This has happened several times and I just have to wonder what is up?

I have an account created and assigned it a password. Same password entered into the fields for verification. Matched in other words.

I also pasted that password in a password manager. So again, the same password. Username is lower case.

I try to login with that user account and that password, and after three attempts I get locked out. Frankly, it is quite irritating. Even when I worked in government I had more login attempts than that. I know I am typing it or even pasting it correctly. The password is upper case, lower case with a & included. What gives? This happens often when I try to use this account.

As an update. I just changed the password to "Blank" and after I hit Change and Done, I could not get into that account. Now I know this isn't right. Is there some delay or something?

Edited December 15, 2025Dec 15 by RaidPC
Update

numlock on some keyboards can swap a character for a letter you think you are typing

Thank you, but the other user account root, gets in with no issues. My keyboard also has a light to indicate when num lock is enabled.

I wonder if I have to reboot the server for the changes to take place??

Is this the backstory?

Share users...

• Can only be created and managed by the root user.

• Can access shares via SMB, NFS, or FTP (if enabled).

• Don't have access to the WebGUI, SSH, or Telnet.

IE. you can only have one management user (root) who can login to the website?

Ssh config tool plugin created ssh users that could at one time...

Terminal useradd

And group usermod -aG grouname username

And am passed -a username for samba...

The reason why they made you use the web UI is because the operating system existed RAM and the files created this way for the etc Shadow file which contains the user accounts and passwords is erased on a reboot.

There are work arounds...

Edited December 15, 2025Dec 15 by bmartino1