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#660 Failed to open SSL key after upgrade

1.000
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2002-10-05
2002-10-05
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Upgrading 0.960 to 1.000 on Linux Mandrake 9.0
This prob happens after machine restarts.

Webmin reports on startup:
Failed to open SSL key at
/usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl line 171.

In /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf keyfile is set to:
keyfile=/etc/ssl/webmin/miniserv.pem

problem:
/etc/ssl/webmin/miniserv.pem does not exist.
directory /etc/ssl/webmin not created.

Fix:
create a directory /etc/ssl/webmin
then copy /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pem to
/etc/ssl/webmin/miniserv.pem
Webmin will start ok then.

Discussion

  • Jamie Cameron

    Jamie Cameron - 2002-10-05
    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Jamie Cameron

    Jamie Cameron - 2002-10-05

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    Yeah, this is a known problem .. Mandrake really shouldn't have
    packaged webmin like that. The next release will fall back
    to non-SSL
    mode if the key file cannot be found.

     

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