Glad to hear you have it working!

Thanks so much Marcel, i changed my password a little bit short and now its working, i can access.

Have a good day!

Hi César,

Have you tried when changing the root password a simple password? Just text and numbers. I suggest you try this first.

Dear, Best regards.
I am presenting a similar problem in my version of clearOS. I entered correctly through console and webconfig or interface, I proceeded to change the password of the root user, I gave it reboot and when turning on it does not allow me to access via Webconfig, ssh, or putty.

In my new password I included the characters # $ these accept them or do not recognize them?

Attentive to your comments.

Thanks in advance!!

Dear, Best regards.
I am presenting a similar problem in my version of clearOS. I entered correctly through console and webconfig or interface, I proceeded to change the password of the root user, I gave it reboot and when turning on it does not allow me to access via Webconfig, ssh, or putty.

In my new password I included the characters # $ these accept them or do not recognize them?

Attentive to your comments.

Thanks in advance!!

Thanks Nick.

I see the bug has been confirmed for the ampersand (& character. I guess I will have to register a developer account in order to comment on it.

Possibly similar to this bug and this un-acknowledged post. If you can get yourself bug tracker access you could add a comment.

Right, problem solved.

I changed the root password.

My standard prefix has special characters, and this one: '^' was not recognised.

Is this a known thing with centos/redhat based servers? I administer many gentoo/ubuntu servers and this was not an issue.

I could not use the old password on SSH or remote web login, or on the local console mode clearos. Local cmd login via a new tty and the local clearos web login (where you go and configure your network on first boot) did work with this character.

Should I file a bug report, and if so, where?


Many thanks Marcel, I appreciate your help with this.

i suppose if you change the root password your problems are solved. Maybe this helps

Quintin van Rooyen wrote:

Yes. I can access the login screen, but I cannot login. I can login locally, but not remotely even though I get to the login screen. Do you know if the clearos login has problems with special characters? I use a standard prefix on all my servers.

Hmm, if i remember correctly their is a report of a person who used special characters and had the same problems. Good catch!

you can try to login via ssh and restart the webconfig.

service webconfig restart

Yes. I can access the login screen, but I cannot login. I can login locally, but not remotely even though I get to the login screen. Do you know if the clearos login has problems with special characters? I use a standard prefix on all my servers.

you can access the login screen via a client but login fails? Correct? If so then its really weird.

Hello. Thanks for the reply.

Well then something is wrong with my install. I am using the same credentials in both instances. Local login works, login from a lan pc fails.

Guess I will have to change the root password and retry.

You have to use "root" and the password you created for root during installation. You say you can login from behind the console so that is the password you also need to use if you want to login remotely via your web browser..

https://ip_address_server:81