Administrator Account Spontaneously Corrupt

[void]

Hi there, me again.

Today as I sit and work I get a pop-up from Outlook that Zimbra cannot authenticate me. It is asking for my name and password again.

I put them in, thinking Outlook is just stupid.

Nope, doesn't work.

I close Outlook and attempt to login to the Zimbra Administration webUI like I have done a thousand times... nope. It tells me I am unable to authenticate. Logging to the regular mail interface also throws an error at me that my username or password is incorrect.

I am quite upset at this, since I am the administrator now I cant read my email OR manage my server.

I restart Zimbra.

Still same problem. I use "zmprov gaaa" and see that my account is there, same is it ever was. I run "zmprov sp myemailhere mypasswordthere" and it accepts this.

I still can't login to either interface.

Just as I am about to open a support ticket and have fnished looking through the forum and the wiki, Outlook pops up that I have new Email.

WHA!? I login to the admin panel and it works fine, Outlook / Zimbra / Thunderbird are all working now.

I don't get how Zimbra first decided my password was wrong, and then after changing it took upwards of 15 minutes before it appears to have accepted the change... perhaps a related symptom?

Anyway, there is something bad wrong here.

Anybody have a clue what just happened?

[mmorse]

What's the password lockout options set to? (advanced tab of the account)

[mmorse]

If that was it - zmprov ma user@domain.com zimbraAccountStatus active can be handy

[void]

If there was indeed somebody trying to brute force my account (wouldnt be surprised) where is the log stored that shows me the pertinent info, like their IP, etc?

Cause I really need to find and kill them.

[mmorse]

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