From: Joe N. <jo...@jo...> - 2012-04-03 14:56:13
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-----Original message----- From: Andrey Repin <anr...@fr...> Sent: Tue 03-04-2012 15:36 Subject: Re: [webmin-l] "Login failed. Please try again." "validate_user: sudo failed" on Ubuntu 10.04.4 Webmin 1.580 To: Webmin users list <web...@li...>; > Greetings, Webmin users list! > > > The work-around would be to set a password for your root user in Webmin's own > password > > file, which will let you login as root instead of as a sudo-capable user. > This can be > > done with a command like : > > > /usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root xyz > > > where xyz is the password. > > Can we have it read password from STDIN, if one is not set at command line, > please? > I can cleanup the history file, of course, but that is needless work. > > And, I would very much like to see the real issue resolved. > Can I help you trace it down? Do you need any additional information? > > For my account, > # sudo -S -l > User anrdaemon may run the following commands on this host: > (ALL) ALL > > I don't know, how to enable debug log, though. > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (anr...@fr...) 03.04.2012, <18:16> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > I agree that I feel this issue needs to be addressed, if at all possible. I feel that enabling root login (albeit only to Webmin and only to the local network) on a public facing mail server may not be the best option. I don't have this issue on other servers, so it seems to be something environment specific... I appreciate it's not affecting everyone and this is a open source project so I am very grateful for vast amounts of time and also money invested in the project. I too am more than happy to continue troubleshooting/testing with you to resolve this. I understand the issue may not be directly Webmin's fault, if it's sudo that's not playing ball? If this is the case and you can give me some more information about it, I can log a bug with Ubuntu? I fear if I did this with the little information I have at the moment the bug would be rejected more or less straight away, though. @Andrey: > I don't know, how to enable debug log, though. Add: debuglog=/var/webmin/miniserv.debug to end of: /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf Then issue: sudo service webmin restart The debug log will be created in /var/webmin/miniserv.debug Joe |