admin account gone?

[sosly]

I have a FreeNAS box that i'm working on and I can't seem to figure out whats going on. I tried resetting the admin password from the console and the message comes up with "the password for the Administrative account '' will be reset to "freenas"" but when i try the web login it doesn't work?? Could the account have been deleted somehow? is there a way to recreate it? If i can't get into the webGUI, there isn't much you can do!
thanks, Brad

 

[djfuego]

Possible reason for lost account.

I renamed the admin account to root in the web panel and it's now lost. Is this what you did? Might need a fix for that one in the next freenas release.

 

[StephenFry]

edit: The following is a useless idea, as protosd below explains. So please ignore!
What happens if you SSH to your FreeNAS box and use "Reset WebGUI login credentials"? (Option 7)
You can use a program like PuTTY for this.

 

[ProtoSD]

You don't get the console menu when you login with ssh, you need to connect a keyboard and monitor to the NAS.

 

[StephenFry]

Whoops, of course. My bad.
post edited to reflect its uselessness.

 

[William Grzybowski]

But you can run it within SSH:

# /etc/netcli