I have been running OPNsense for years and I'm on the latest community production version. I run on a Lenovo M920q with 12GB of ram and an Intel X710-DA2. With my wife and I both WFH and teenage kids the high availability/fast recovery approach is key. I have a second M920q with another Intel X710-DA2 that I want to recover to if there were a hardware or corruption failure (the latter happened before).
I downloaded the latest installer and imported my latest config to the backup device and I see it boot fine. For whatever reason my internet access doesn't work on some of my VLANs/subnets, but on others it does. Weird. Anyway, I try to login with valid credentials (no fat fingering - direct copy/paste from my password manager) and I get a wrong username or password error. None of my 3 admin or 1 service accounts credentials work.
I've tested resetting the root password as a worst case fallback. I reset it (using the support instructions to mount rw and opnsense-shell password) and then login from the console after it completes boot in single user mode, but then I reboot into multi-user mode and I can't login with the new root credentials nor with any of the valid ones from the other accounts.
Can anyone help me understand what's going on? As it stands now I really have no backup and that worries me greatly.
Is this happening on the WebUI login screen as well, or just from the console? Are you using PuTTY by any chance?
This is a long shot but I'll mention a recent strange experience. I use PuTTY and in the past I'm pretty sure I was able to copy/paste my login password into the serial prompt and it just worked. Since a recent change in FreeBSD however relating to UART and serial consoles, I am no longer able to do that. I now need to manually type the password into the serial console.
SSH is not affected for me. Only serial. Using PuTTY for both.