Howto start usermin remotely to change password

satimis · 11-30-2007, 02:11 AM

Hi folks,

Ubuntu 7.04 server amd64

I can't figure out how users can start usermin remotely and login their account to change password.

On server, user can start usermin locally running "https://mail:20000"
login in their account and change password.

However on remote PC;
User can browse the apache-default page on server with "http://domain.com"m or "http://domain.com"
(remark. homepage NOT hoisted yet)

Run
https://mail.domain.com:20000

Code:

Unable to connect

https://domain.com/mail:20000/

Code:

Not Found
The requested URL /mail:20000/ was not found on this server.

Please advise how to start usermin remotely for users changing their password. TIA

B.R.
satimis

tanveer · 11-30-2007, 05:43 AM

try chetcpasswd for remotely changing user password.

satimis · 11-30-2007, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanveer

try chetcpasswd for remotely changing user password.

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

chetcpasswd is on repo. I have it installed.

$ sudo apt-get install chetcpasswd

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chetcpasswd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 35.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 221kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe chetcpasswd 2.3.3-1 [35.4kB]
Fetched 35.4kB in 2s (16.0kB/s)     
Selecting previously deselected package chetcpasswd.
(Reading database ... 90549 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking chetcpasswd (from .../chetcpasswd_2.3.3-1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up chetcpasswd (2.3.3-1) ...

I have been googling around for document making it to work without discovery so that users can login server via browser changing their password. Please shed me some light.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

tanveer · 12-01-2007, 05:33 AM

I have tried this in my RHEL AS 4 after downloading usermin

Code:

[root@server ~]# rpm -ivh usermin-1.310-1.noarch.rpm 
warning: usermin-1.310-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 11f63c51
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
Operating system is Redhat Enterprise Linux
   1:usermin                ########################################### [100%]
Usermin install complete. You can now login to http://server:20000/
as any user on your system.
[root@server ~]#

Then From my windows XP PC(192.168.100.55) I browsed the RHEL box(192.168.100.5) as

Code:

http://192.168.100.5:20000/

and logged in as a regular user and easily changed the password.

I have also implemented chetcpasswd from sarg and installed it and its working fine. I will post my httpd.conf file tomorrow.

Though I haven't tried this in ubuntu. Will try tonight.