Can't login with console (noVNC)

[Henrique]

Hey there!

I'm having a weird problem with my Proxmox server. I can't login to any of my virtual machines/containers using the console. I tried logging in with root, inserted my password, and I always get an error. I even tried to reset the password to 123456, and couldn't login...

If I connect over SSH, I can perfectly login with my password.

Any idea what might be?

Thanks!

 

[wbumiller]

What template are you using and what console do you get conntected to? You can only login as root on trusted consoles (iow. listed in /etc/securetty).
With some template console might be getting spawned on different device nodes.

 

[Henrique]

Oh that makes sense. I'm using the CentOS template, but it was working until a few days ago, I don't think I changed anything on the template. Do you know how can I fix it?

 

[wbumiller]

Which CentOS version? You can either add the consoles you get logged on to to /etc/securetty or see if you have a container-getty@.service with a`pts/%I` you can replace with `lxc/tty%I`

 

[Henrique]

I'm running CentOS 7. This is my /etc/securetty from one of my containers:

http://pastebin.com/2vrSwyvk

 

[wbumiller]

Try adding a few lxc/tty1, lxc/tty2, ... entries

 

[Henrique]

So, I need to do it for every single container and VPS I create? Or there is a way to automate that?

The weird thing is that it was working fine before.

 

[Henrique]

Do you have any idea how to set up this automatically every time I create a new container? Do I need to create my own template?

 

[wbumiller]

There are some inconsistencies there between distributions (versions), templates, what we setup automatically. (Eg. automatically changing systemd's container-getty@.service as I suggested above. Code for this is already in my queue).
We're going to work on this part of the automatic setup a bit more, so this should generally improve in the future.

 

[prakash]

this issue mostly seems for centos 7 templates , centos 6 no issues so far
login to container
vi /etc/security/console.perms
comment the console permissions
probably
#<console>=tty[0-9][0-9]* vc/[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ :[0-9]+
#<xconsole>=:[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ :[0-9]+