Re: [webmin-l] Webmin Login Help

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

Ah, I see now .. you are running into a check in Webmin to ensure that
cookies are enabled on the login page. To avoid this, add the line 
no_testing_cookie=1   to /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf , and then re-start
Webmin.

 - Jamie

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:16, Matt wrote:

>  I tried with Firefox and the error message was 
> 
> Error - No cookies
> 
> Your browser does not support cookies, which are required for this web server to work in session authentication mode
> 
> Again when I tried the second method, i.e just typing the IP Address
> in the URL without passing the username/password, getting the login
> screen and then typing the complete URL with username/password, it
> works fine. How is it that it is able to set cookies when only the IP
> Address is entered https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000 and not with the
> complete URL
> https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000/session_login.cgi?user=adminamp;pass=xxxxxxamp;log_account=10?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Matt
> 
> Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> 
>         You should try connecting in a browser other than IE, such as
>         Firefox. IE hides the real error message from the web server,
>         so it is hard to see what is going wrong..
>         
>         - Jamie
>         
>         -----Original Message-----
>         
>         From: Matt 
>         Subj: Re: [webmin-l] Webmin Login Help
>         Date: Tue 18 Oct 2005 5:09 am
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>         To: web...@li...
>         
>         Thanks a lot for the help. It worked fine for me. Another
>         question is the first time I click the link
>         https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000/session_login.cgi?user=adminamp;pass=xxxxxxamp;log_account=10
>         , it comes up with an error saying 
>         The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the page
>         you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.
>         But if I just give the link https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000 and
>         hit enter, it shows the login page which is fine. But after
>         that clic k the above url with the username and password it
>         works just fine.
>         
>         What is the reason it doesn't work initially? Does it need to
>         set any cookies? Why does it work the second method. Any help
>         or suggestion is highly appreciated.
>         
>         Matt
>         
>         
>         Jamie Cameron jca...@we... wrote:
>         On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 04:50, Matt wrote:
>         I have a link of my web page to open a browser and log me into
>         my
>         machine running webmin without having to login. The url is 
>         
>         https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000/session_login.cgi?user=adminamp;pass=xxxxxxamp;log_account=10
>         
>         Now I want to able to control which page is loaded by default
>         depending on the value of log_account, for eg: if
>         log_account=10, I
>         want it to load Networking page and if log_account=20, I want
>         it to
>         load System page. Can I check the value of log_account or any
>         other
>         variable I pass? So can anyone explain how webmin's login
>         process
>         works and what file is executed after the login button on
>         session_login.cgi has been clicked?
>         
>         You should be able to specify the page to go to after login
>         already, by
>         adding a URL parameter like :
>         
>         amp;page=/%3Fcat%3Dsystem
>         
>         to go to the system category.
>         
>         - Jamie
>         
>         
>         
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