Webmin authentication logging?

[John Oliver]

I got webmin working by setting it to open on port 80. Dunno why that
works and not any other port, but...

However, I cannot log in with my root password. Just says "login
failed". Where are authentication logs kept? I need to know *why* it
says login failed...
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[Barry Caplan]

using webmin 0.96.

I changed settings to block after a certain number of failed attempts (5 I think). I also changed authentication to use PAM.

Now I can't log on at all. I get a message that says: "Login failed. Please try again"

- I too would like to know where logs are kept
- If I am blocked, for who long is that
- how can I set the authentication method back to something that works?

Thanks!

Barry


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[Jamie Cameron]

Post by Barry Caplan
using webmin 0.96.
I changed settings to block after a certain number of failed attempts (5 I think). I also changed authentication to use PAM.
Now I can't log on at all. I get a message that says: "Login failed. Please try again"
- I too would like to know where logs are kept
- If I am blocked, for who long is that
- how can I set the authentication method back to something that works?

If you have enabled PAM authentication, make sure the file /etc/pam.d/webmin exists
on your system - it should look something like :

#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_unix.so shadow nullok
account required pam_unix.so
password required pam_unix.so shadow nullok use_authtok
session required pam_unix.so

Also, to reset the failed logins block, just stop and re-start webmin.

- Jamie

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[Jamie Cameron]

Post by John Oliver
I got webmin working by setting it to open on port 80. Dunno why that
works and not any other port, but...
However, I cannot log in with my root password. Just says "login
failed". Where are authentication logs kept? I need to know *why* it
says login failed...

There is no error_log file like apache has, but if you cannot login
then there can only be two possible problems - the user does not exist
in /etc/webmin/miniserv.users , or the password for the user is incorrect.
If it is the latter, you might want to try running

/usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root newpassword

to re-set the root password. Normally it should be copied from your root
password at the time webmin was installed, assuming you installed from
an RPM.

- Jamie

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