authentication failed with user in logs

[anewday]

2008-04-01 13:59:05.423	INFO	[24.x.x.x:32853-0#APVH_www.mydomain.com] Authentication failed with user: 'admin'.

I see many of these lines on error_log, that IP address is mine. I never had any login failures with the admin username. Why does it show that?

 

[mistwang]

I have no clue, any part of your site require login as "admin"? Maybe it due to password change and the browser still send the old password it remembers?

 

[anewday]

Only the Web Console requires username, admin. I never changed the password since I installed lsws.

 

[mistwang]

Web console use cookie for login, not HTTP authentication, and it won't log that to error log either.

 

[anewday]

Sorry, I just realized that there is one url that is protected by htaccess with the username, admin. But then, I was able to login with the saved password in FireFox, password remained the same since that account was created. The error_log file shows at least 20 lines as pasted on the first message of this thread.

 

[mistwang]

Maybe your browser does send the password by default, only when get a 401 error it will send it. Don't worry about it.