The login is invalid.

[Luann peixe]

This started happening out of nowhere, now I can not access the VPS nor the WHM. I believe it is the firewall...

[cPanelTristan]

Please contact the node administrator for access into the machine to shut off the firewall and/or cPHulk Brute Force protection if that is enabled:

for i in `ps aux | grep -i "cphulkd - process" | awk {'print $2'}` ;do kill -9 $i ;done
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cphulk_pam_ctl --disable

The first command will kill any cPhulkd processes, while the second will disable it.

[Luann peixe]

If I do this will not affect the safety of the machine?

[cPanelTristan]

You need to access the machine to even log into it. After you've logged into the machine, if it was cPHulk Brute Force Protection, you can then whitelist your IP(s) to where you won't be blocked again. The machine right now is so secure you cannot even access it yourself. I would imagine you would want to be able to access it, although it is up to you if you want to have the component disabled so you can.

[Ricksterm]

I'm also getting this issue, I cannot login to WHM, CPanel, FTP, Email, SSH seems to be getting denied too. It started after we got updated to 11.32 build 27 a week ago, I did manage to get on with enough time to change us back to the stable branch and reinstall cpanel, but this issue cropped up again yesterday and this time I cannot get in at all no matter what I try, All I get is "The login is invalid".

I have seen several threads across forums on the internet all from this Month with this issue, so I am sure it has to be build 27!

[cPanelTristan]

Are you sure it isn't cPHulk Brute Force Protection, though, or CSF having an issue in conjuction with the 11.32 update? For example, I'm not having an issue on that build in logging into my machines.

[Ricksterm]

I'm not sure if it's CPHulk or not, I have tried to login from other IP addresses to rule out my own being blocked, everything (all accounts for cPanel, FTP, Email) results in "The login is invalid."

I was using FTP to upload stuff to one of my accounts yesterday just fine, then when I went to log in to WHM to set up a new account the first try gave the error and I am certain I was using the correct password.

I'm not sure if we are using CSF or not? If it's an option it's something I've not enabled/installed.

Is it possible that CPHulk is blocking all IP's from logging in for a period of time?

[cPanelTristan]

Yes, it is possible all IPs are being blocked due to one attacker blocking the service. That's the purpose of whitelisting your IP in cPHulk Brute Force Protection so that you can always access even when someone else blocks that user's login due to brute forcing it.

[LAZer]

hi , i faced the same issue today !
"The login is invalid."

there are lots of records in cphulkd in whm , with no ip . the only info is in the fields of "system" and "time"
i tried restarting cpanel , restarting csf firewall , and cphulkd but no changes.

hopefully i had a ssh session active in another windows and i can use it for logging into server.

those commands return : no such process .
and the second line : no such a file or directory !

[Ricksterm]

It's good to know others are getting this issue all of a sudden also. I am still trying to resolve it here but I think all of my options have been exhausted unless one of the staff here can enlighten us?

LAZer did you manage to get access to WHM again? From your post it is not 100% clear to me.

[cPanelMichael]

It's good to know others are getting this issue all of a sudden also. I am still trying to resolve it here but I think all of my options have been exhausted unless one of the staff here can enlighten us?

LAZer did you manage to get access to WHM again? From your post it is not 100% clear to me.

If you feel this is a flaw with cPHulk, please open a support ticket so our staff can take a closer look:

Submit A Ticket

You can post the ticket number here so we can provide updates to this thread.

Thank you.

[nicearma]

I have the same problem, i can connect sometime and sometime i can't, and if i have lucky i connect but after about 10 minute the system close the session and i can't connect more, or i have to wait sometime for connect again

[azn_romeo_4u]

Same problem. I can't login into WHM. If I use firefox it says Invalid Login. If I use IE it says "A network error occurred while sending your login request. Please try again. If this condition persists, contact your network service provider." Chrome says the same thing as firefox.

This started happening since the last cpanel update. I think it's a bug of some sort. I'm trying to login with root. It works on ssh, but not on whm.

[cPanelTristan]

Is your IP whitelisted in cPHulk Brute Force Protection? Do you have cPHulk Brute Force Protection enabled? If the answer is no to the first and yes to the second, have you tried either a) whitelisting your IP in WHM > cPHulk Brute Force Protection, or b) disabling cPHulk Brute Force Protection. I see no-one here who has confirmed it was indeed cPHulk or not and whether whitelisting the IP helped. Thanks!

[ehask71]

I dont think your understanding. We can login no problem via ssh which shows we are using the correct passwd. Yet when I try WHM I get login invalid. I wait 10 mins and I can login.

Something weird going on for awhile I thought datacenter was doing maint until I ran into it on a new server tonight