Can't reset admin password

[xkelly]

Hi. Weird thing happened. I was logged into ssh as root, setting up the openssl.cfg file in order to have a private-signed certificate. After creating the cfg file, all openssh functions began to error out. I googled and saw that it might be related to the beta vpn package I installed, so went to login to webamin as admin in order to make a change or disable the vpn app, but it wouldn't recognize my admin password. The admin password as Root in Putty still worked, though.

After several attempts, I hit the reset button till the first beep, then, via ds assistant, tried again with the default blank password. Still no go. I tried the reset two more times, then shut down the unit and restarted it. Still no love. Now I cannot even get in as root. Probably because the reset disabled ssh?

I can, however, still login to the shares via Windows as a user. Not admin, just by my user name.

Any ideas without doing a full firmware reinstall? (if that will even work at this point)

This is a two day old ds1511+.

Thanks.

[maxxfi]

If you can login as admin on the web UI, perhaps you can temporarily enable telnet
and log in as root from there. If that works, at least the issue is only with ssh settings.