Hello folks,

Is it possible to automatic login to Webmin by sending your username and password through an URL? I tried http://www.test.com:10000?user=test&pass=123456 but then I get an error because of maintainence.

I'm asking this because our Webmin has to integrate to our intranet, which is AD authenticated.

Greetings Chris

Are you sure that the variables in the login form are, indeed "user" and "pass" and that there are no hidden variables you're missing? Also, I haven't used Webmin for awhile, but is it possible that it only supports "POST" and not "GET?" If this last is the case, you'll need to POST the username/password to webmin, or hack Webmin to allow GET. Does that make sense?

I've used Webmin and I've integrated a lot of different user/pw type systems together like you're suggesting on an intranet, and haven't really had any problems, although sometimes you do need to do a bit of code-changing with one thing or another to use your internal main authentication system...

MrsV

It may or may not be possible.

If the scripts are ONLY looking at POSTed parameters, it will not work. If the script looks at combined GET/POSTed paramters it will likely work. You can always change the script to look for GET in addition to POST.

This isn't working because you're not posting to the right page.

Look at the login page's source (i've stripped out all but form elements)

<form class='ui_form' action='/session_login.cgi' method=post >
<input class='ui_hidden' type=hidden name="page" value="/">
<input class='ui_textbox' name="user" value="" size=20 >
<input class='ui_password' type=password name="pass" value="" size=20 >
<input class='ui_submit' type=submit value="Login">
<input type=reset value="Clear">
</form>


Action equals /session_login.cgi so that's the URL you have to post to, so yourdomain.com/session_login.cgi?user=username&pass=password.