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Bug #16728

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Changing the password from the default in the GUI from the default requires a logout and login to continue

Added by Christopher Cope 2 days ago. Updated about 10 hours ago.

Status:
Feedback
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Christian McDonald
Category:
Authentication
Target version:
CE-Next
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
26.03
Release Notes:
Force Exclusion
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Affected Architecture:

Description

Tested on

26.07-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Fri Feb 27 6:00:00 UTC 2026
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT

During the first login it requests to change the password from the default. After doing that, any attempts to navigate just redirect back to the same page /system_usermanager_passwordmg.php asking to change the password.

Changing the password from the console before logging in doesn't cause any issues, but if I login and then change it from the console I end up in the same loop.

I have to logout and back in to get it to recognize that the password has been changed. It seems it only recognizes if the password is default or not at login and stays in that state.

I thought it might have been due to https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16720, but reverting those changes doesn't appear to change it.

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