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gazzo

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Hello,
Not sure what happened but out of nowhere my root password has started to fail. I'm unable to log into the gui side of pve but I can ssh into it using the same password. I've seen several people with the same issue but different fixes. Unfortunately all those fixes I've tried don't work.
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Did you enable directory authentication? 2FA/Oath authentication? Made any other changes? Is there anything in the browser console? Is anything logged here: tail -f /var/log/pveproxy/access.log , after auth failure.

What happens when you run from SSH shell:
curl -k -d 'username=root@pam' --data-urlencode 'password=xxxxxxxxx' https://[IP]:8006/api2/json/access/ticket


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I did not enable directory or 2 factor authentication. Last change I made, switched the email associated with root. I can access the login form in the gui but login fails when I enter root password. I do use the same password for ssh.
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You have a typo in the first command: missing "y" in pveproxy
You also appear to have typed the second command wrong... A "-" instead of "="

If you have special characters, they may interfere in the curl command without appropriate quoting/escaping. You may want to set your password to something simple temporary.

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I did journalctl -f and tried logging in. Looks like the root account was disabled. No idea how that happened.

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I edited the user.cfg in /etc/pve and changed it to 1:0.
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I'm back in now. Thanks for all your help! Much appreciated.
 
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