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This article when a user tries to access the console through the web-based manager, a 'login failed' message always appears.
Solution
If trusted-hosts are defined on the FortiGate, then 127.0.0.1/32 should be added to authorize web-based manager CLI console access.
This is because the web-based manager CLI console relies on a telnet connection initiated from the FortiGate internal webserver (i.e. localhost 127.0.0.1).
