Re: [Wifiadmin-users] Cannot log in to wifiadmin

[Rob F. <ro...@no...>]

On Oct 24, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Jerry wrote:

> Im hopeing someone can help me out.  I have a voyage linux (2.6.8)  
> Wrap board using thttpd and php and a tweaked version of wifiadmin,  
> (tweaked by metrix communications (http://metrix.net/metrix/howto/ 
> metrix-pebble.html)) .  I get the login page but connot login with  
> any passwords that I have used, or what is supposed to be the  
> default (admin:wifiadmin)   This is what happened:

I maintain Metrix Pebble and our version of WiFiAdmin.  Metrix pebble  
uses the system password mechanism.  On our distribution the default  
is root/root.

> I just deleted the /var/www/wifiadmin folder. I then untarred the  
> metrix version in www-root folder (/var/www/) so it will answer a  
> direct http request.  so far so good. the metrix version creates a  
> password file in /etc/wifiadmin.passwd.  I didnt want to give root  
> permissions to the httpd user in /etc so I edited to place it in / 
> etc/wifi/wifiadmin.passwd and placed the correct permissions on  
> the /etc/wifi directory.

Hoo boy, that's a bad idea.  I would remove that immediately.  The  
Metrix branch of WiFiAdmin is very, very divergent from the main at  
this stage.  It will probably only work properly with our  
distribution (not really on purpose, but because my time is limited  
to work on it...)  There's about a billion security holes and other  
problems if you run it on any other distribution.  Roll back.

Cheers,

--Rob