To confirm @ele‘s findings: leave the password empty
Unfortunately, I did not take a screenshot of the initial login screen.
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There were three fields:
- ‘password from installation config file’
- user
- user password
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Following ele’s advice:
- first field empty
- second field a YNH user
- third field the YNH user password
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Result? Error!
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Retry? Error!
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Threw away cookies, retried, error
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Went back to the forum trying to find another, more recent, hint, only found ele’s post
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Threw away cookies, refreshed, got this login screen instead, with a single user:
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Here I used ‘Sign In’
- Used the same YNH user as before
- Used the same YNH password as before
- and …
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Success!
Or, so it would seem. I went back (browser-back) , hoping to get to the initial 3-field login screen to take screenshots, but it was not it the browser cache.
Then I went on to at least document the successful login; using the same user/pass again, I got a number of times:
Which is another error than when using another YNH user that does not exist in Sharkey (It gives a ‘friendly’ user does not exist reply).
After trying with the ‘working’ user/pass three times, I threw cookies out of the window again. After that login worked.
So the process of logging in is a bit feeble in my experience so far. Also… Once I have a back-up user, first thing I’ll do is adblock the moving and fading balls in the background: they bring my 64 GB / 8-core desktop PC to a crawl!