Server Console Shell Password

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kuumaur

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Dear Forum,
Currently I can, from the Web Interface, enter the Server shell with no prompt for a password or username.
I would like to know, how I could activate a Login/Password for the Server Console Shell.
Can someone help me out?
 
Ok, so when I have passed the Web UI login, I can access the server shell without further user/password. That feels a little bit inconsistent to me. For accessing a VM or Container via Web UI, I need the authenticate, but for the shell of the under laying Server not.
 
kuumaur said:
Ok, so when I have passed the Web UI login, I can access the server shell without further user/password.
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You had to enter a correct username+password when you opened the Web Gui, didn't you? So - if you log in as root - you are already authenticated and can work on this machine as... root.

Please note also that this works only for users@pam by default. As soon as you switch to a user@pve (for example) the root shell window of the Web Gui will ask for a username+password.
 
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UdoB said:
You had to enter a correct username+password when you opened the Web Gui, didn't you? So - if you log in as root - you are already authenticated and can work on this machine as... root.

Please note also that this works only for users@pam by default. As soon as you switch to a user@pve (for example) the root shell window of the Web Gui will ask for a username+password.
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Thank you. It was my fault. I ignored, that Iam working as root.
 
kuumaur said:
For accessing a VM or Container via Web UI, I need the authenticate, but for the shell of the under laying Server not.
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For containers, you can login as root automatically without authentication using pct enter or setting the Console Mode to shell (and then it also works via the web GUI).
 
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