Hi all - just tried to insatll hestia for the first time (on an ubuntu instance of oracle VM) but when trying to log in it does not recognise the login details and after 3 or 4 tries seems to become unresponsive to the browser
The irresponsiveness is due to the fact that you have been banned by fail2ban
If your password contains special chars such as / - * ? # ’ or " be careful because that might be the problem. The password stored in hestiaCP is not the password you typed.
my password indeed has exclamation marks - not sure what you mean by the “one stored in hespiaCP” - it is the one i included in the "bash hst-install.sh " command under --password
what is Fail2Ban? how long is the ban? until reboot? sorry but am a newbie so not sure how this works…
whats the best thing for me to do now? change password or do i need to reinstall the server?