Yep, still that way in 2.3 release.
> On 2016, Apr 24, at 11:21 PM, Steve Yates wrote:
>
> I posted about that when I discovered it a year ago. It seems silly to have
> a field that is ignored and something else used instead. Is that still in
> 2.3 that way? It seems like it would be easy
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Subject: Re: [pfSense] XMLRPC sync - user/password limitations? And a possible
bug regarding 'admin' user
> On 2016, Apr 24, at 7:05 PM, Olivier Mascia wrote:
>
> Why is there a box to enter the remote system username, when it is useless
> and has to be 'admin' anyway?... :)
It seems to be an incomplete feature upgrade, as the admin user has always been
usable and it was intended to have other us
> Le 25 avr. 2016 à 00:34, Olivier Mascia a écrit :
>
> /xmlrpc.php: webConfigurator authentication error for 'admin' from 172.16.0.2
> during sync settings.
>
> The user setup on the primary firewall is not 'admin'. So if the secondary
> attempts to validate the password against 'admin', tha
More info.
There indeed must be something wrong with the setting up of the couple
user/password used by primary to update secondary config.
At least the following log message found on the secondary is suspect:
/xmlrpc.php: webConfigurator authentication error for 'admin' from 172.16.0.2
during s
