Re: [webmin-devel] same_user tunneling

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

On 08/Oct/2009 21:45 David Drayton <ddr...@pu...> wrote ..
> Hi all,
> Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find any information on
> it.
> 
> I noticed when looking in servers/link.cgi that there is code that facilitates
> using the current username and password for the credentials when tunnelling. However,
> the option is hidden when running servers/edit_serv.cgi and I can't work out why.
> It looks like it relies on a 'pass' option being setup in the servers acl, but
> it doesn't look like there is one. 
> 
> So:
> 1. How does one setup the system so that this option appears?
> 2. Does it really allow for tunnelling as I am assuming?
> 3. Does this also allow for RPC commands, or is that still only when you manually
> input a username and password in the server setup?

To enable this, you need to go to Webmin -> Webmin Configuration -> Authentication,
and select "Disable session authentication", then click "Save". Then go to Advanced Options,
and change "Make password available to Webmin programs?" to "Yes", click "Save", and 
then logout and login again.

Pretty much everything will work fine, except for cron jobs that make remote RPC calls
to other Webmin systems, as the password isn't available to them.

 - Jamie