woow .... this night was exceptional !!
- for shot version GOTO 'SHORT'
- for the long version keep reading
here is my story...
I have been using Sophos UTM (Astaro ASG) for years at work and have never been into a problem that took more than 30 min to fix ...
lately I wanted to use the home license on a my on box at home (I have quite a big network at home, I am the network admin of the whole building [:)] )
this is when I started experimenting with all possible features of the UTM I attached to my home domain with active directory and started using it to authenticate users, I updated the windows server that has a AD and something went wrong so I had to take it down .... I noticed I can't get to the UTM webadmin page so I thought there is a problem with the interfaces, I connected a monitor and a keyboard ..... tried to login the root account but told me the password is wrong..... reset the password ( booting using init=/bin/bash) and still says the password is wrong when I reboot normally into the console !!!
I tried many times to reset the password for root and loginuser but eachtime it says the password is still wrong .... I noticed that the prompt goes from
login:
to
login:
after it fails to log me in the first time
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so I think the UTM is still trying to authenticate using the active directory .... now I am locked out from webadmin and can't reset root or loginuser ..... how to tell the UTM not to lookup useres from AD (that is down) ?
if this is not possible then please tell me how to get a copy of the configuration backup so that I can load it up after a clean reinstall ?
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