I got tired of using sneakernet with flash drives with a buddy at work, so I made him an account on my Freenas, and opened SSH on the firewall to the Freenas. Everything worked great until the next time I went to log onto the Freenas webgui. Naturally the root account was locked out due to the FOUR BAJILLION root login attempts. Went to keyboard at the Freenas and reset password, so no biggy.
I'm not really worried about security as we are using like 40 characters for all the passwords and Freenas is Freebsd. If they get into my box, they earned it. I'm just wondering the path of least resistance to allow SSH through the firewall to the Freenas so my buddy can log onto his account and get the files I leave for him in his home directory without the root account getting locked out by failed root login attempts. I looked into making a new account for the webgui but quickly found out its root or nothing for it.
I'm not really worried about security as we are using like 40 characters for all the passwords and Freenas is Freebsd. If they get into my box, they earned it. I'm just wondering the path of least resistance to allow SSH through the firewall to the Freenas so my buddy can log onto his account and get the files I leave for him in his home directory without the root account getting locked out by failed root login attempts. I looked into making a new account for the webgui but quickly found out its root or nothing for it.