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

[Jerry <mr...@st...>]

Hello!

root/root doesnt work either.

I cant roll back, that doesnt work either... I guess I dont need wifiadmin, 
but it sure would be nice.

I just dont understand why I would have to reformat to reinstall the 
thing...  :(

Thanks

Jerryf


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Flickenger" <ro...@no...>
To: "Jerry" <mr...@te...>
Cc: <wif...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Wifiadmin-users] Cannot log in to wifiadmin


>
> 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
>
>