I upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 recently. In 4.7 the web-if required me to login as root using the password I use for shell logins.

After the upgrade, I'm no longer asked for a password. Is that intentional, or do I have to tick a checkbox to get the old behaviour?

 

Regards,

    myce

Not quite sure exactly what your problem is.

 

However, I use Firefox and the first time that I call-up the UNRaid Web Interface, it asks for the user name and password.  If I close just the tab for the interface and later open a new tab accessing the interface, it loads without requiring a log-in prompt.  If I close (shutdown) the browser (Firefox) and then restart the browser, I will get a prompt requesting log-in.  Apparently, what is happening is that the communication link is not broken when I just close the tab (or browse to a different website).  When I click on the link to return to the UNRaid Interface, it simply resumes the earlier session.  If I want to break the link, I have to close the browser.  (That is why many secured sites recommend that you close your browser when you log out.)

 

If this is not what is happening in your case, you need to post more detail about your browser and exactly what you are doing to generate the issue. 

I upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 recently. In 4.7 the web-if required me to login as root using the password I use for shell logins.

After the upgrade, I'm no longer asked for a password. Is that intentional, or do I have to tick a checkbox to get the old behaviour?

 

I believe I had the same. If I remember correctly, I added a password with passwd in a shell login.

I upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 recently. In 4.7 the web-if required me to login as root using the password I use for shell logins.

After the upgrade, I'm no longer asked for a password. Is that intentional, or do I have to tick a checkbox to get the old behaviour?

 

I believe I had the same. If I remember correctly, I added a password with passwd in a shell login.

 

Adding a password this way will not last past a reboot. Use the WebGUI to set passwords.

Adding a password this way will not last past a reboot. Use the WebGUI to set passwords.

 

Just double-checked: I remember using the WedGUI password page and the root password does survive reboot, so I probably did what dgaschk says.

Not quite sure exactly what your problem is.

 

However, I use Firefox and the first time that I call-up the UNRaid Web Interface, it asks for the user name and password.  If I close just the tab for the interface and later open a new tab accessing the interface, it loads without requiring a log-in prompt.  If I close (shutdown) the browser (Firefox) and then restart the browser, I will get a prompt requesting log-in.  Apparently, what is happening is that the communication link is not broken when I just close the tab (or browse to a different website).  When I click on the link to return to the UNRaid Interface, it simply resumes the earlier session.  If I want to break the link, I have to close the browser.  (That is why many secured sites recommend that you close your browser when you log out.)

 

If this is not what is happening in your case, you need to post more detail about your browser and exactly what you are doing to generate the issue.

No, that's not what is happening in my case. Even after closing the browser (Firefox in my case) I wasn't asked for a password the next time I connected to the web-if. Even accessing the web-if from a different browser on a different machine didn't get me a password prompt. unRAID just let me into the web-if without requiring a password.

But it's kind of solved now: I changed the password using the web-if, then changed it back. Now everything works as expected: I'm asked for a password when connecting to the web-if.

I might have changed the password in the shell, but the password survived reboots of the server, so I probably did use the web-if to set it after the upgrade.

Anyway: Under certain conditions unRAID doesn't ask for a password in the web-if. It seems this can be fixed by setting the password again.

It sounds as if you have told the browser to remember the password for your unRAID login?  If so you will not be prompted to provide it every time.  On my own system I find that I typically do not get re-prompted for the password until I reboot the system running the browser.

 

Whether unRAID should be taking more aggressive action to expire such cached information is more interesting.  In the home environment where unRAID is typically used it could become irritating if one was prompted too often for the password.