Re: [webmin-l] Login from within a portal

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 11:45, Jeremy Pennington wrote:
> I have a portal setup and was wanting to allow users to login to
> webmin from within this portal. In the portal I have created a
> username and password section for webmin. I am hoping to allow a user
> to enter their username/password information and click login taking
> them directly to what they have access to in webmin, skipping the
> original login page (keeping this a session login if possible). This
> is the error message I get now when trying this from firefox "Error-No
> cookies Your browser does not support cookies, which are required for
> this web server to work in session authentication mode".  However, my
> browser does support cookies because if I login the through the
> default login screen, I don't have any problems. Here is the line in
> the portal that I am using to pass the username and password to
> webmin when the user clicks Login.  form method="post"
> action="https://www.xxxxx.com:10000/session_login.cgi"  

Webmin by default checks if the browser supports cookies by setting a
cookie called 'test' on the login page. However, you can avoid this
check by adding the line no_testing_cookie=1 to
/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf and then re-starting Webmin.

 - Jamie