OpenVAS login broken...

[Arvandor]

It was working fine last I tried to launch it, but now it gives me a "login failed" message when I try to use the admin account.

I ended up just trying to create a new account to reset the admin password with, as per a fix from a google search, but I can't log into the newly minted user either. What the heck?

I also tried connecting via the GUI, which I'd never done before, and it gives me an error message about checking the address and port (I tried 127.0.0.1:9392, localhost:9392, and the 9390 port that was in there by default, in case 9392 is specific to the web app)

[mcwhippin]

did you try using "root" for admin username?? then whatever password you made for admin account ? idk bro :/

[Arvandor]

I haven't tried that yet... But I was logging in for almost a full month with admin for username and the password I set up, then one day, bam, it quit working, and once again, I've tried creating new accounts through the command line, and it says they're successfully created, but I can't log into them. Something somewhere is screwed up with the authentication process, but I don't know what or where.

[Arvandor]

Bump, still trying to figure this one out. I found a script that lets you modify user passwords by changing the user file when run as root, so I changed a couple of the passwords, restarted the openvas services through the lazykali script, and it STILL says login failed when I try to log in. I'm stumped.

I'd rebuild OpenVAS, but I tried that once before, and just ended up reinstalling my entire OS, which ended up being a more straightforward solution, sadly.