I've had Webmin installed on my machine for a while now, but haven't been using it. When I finally do want to use it again, I find I can't log in. Pointing my browser at http://localhost:10000 works and I see the login page. I enter "root" and my root password as the username and password respectively, but I get the message, "Login failed. Please try again.". The last time I used Webmin, it worked with this info and I haven't changed anything (at least, I don't think I have). I definitely know my root password as well, I can use Samba's SWAT for one thing!

Is there anything I can do to try and fix this? I'm not sure where to start looking :/.

Thanks.

Hi,

Can you login from a normal user account ?

I dont know if it a webmin default but to login as 'root' i need to user 'admin' username and my root password.

If you install it from rpm it your root's login

but if you install it from .tar.gz it the values that you entered into the setup script
You can try to run the setup.sh again
#cd /usr/libexec/webmin/
# ./setup.sh

try logging in as admin with your root password, thats how my webmin works. Its been installed for ages but i cant remember configuring anything special and i have upgraded recently to the latest version.

Hope that helps.
Mac

Thank you guideweb and marcusmiller for your replies. Unfortunately, I can't log in as my normal user or as admin using my root pass. Both of those gave the same error. Hmm, I didn't install it from tar.gz or RPM, I used the .tgz Slackware package from http://linuxpackages.net.

I found this in /var/webmin/miniserv.error:

[02/Aug/2005:11:18:52 +0100] miniserv.pl started
[02/Aug/2005:11:18:52 +0100] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not installed : Can't locate Authen/PAM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/webmin /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i486-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i486-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at (eval 2) line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 2) line 1.

Hey Nylex

I know you need Perl 5 but that looks OK; from the error message it looks like you need PAM. I am no expert here but maybe you could try removing this installation and installing from an RPM to see if that deals with any dependencies the webmin has?

I have installed and upgraded webmin a few times, always from an RPM and never had any problems.

Hope this helps.
Mac

<Birmingham and London hey? I am in Brum right now matey>

Slackware doesn't use RPM though. I'm sure it was working fine before, though :/.

Yeah, Birmingham is for uni, London is home .

I have no experience with slackware so not sure then. Maybe something you have installed has broken PAM and webmin needs it to work. You could try updating to the latest webmin and see if that helps. Failing that, you could look into Smart which is a package management system like yum/up2date/apt-get etc that works on slackware http://smartpm.org/

After that, im all out bud; slackwhere is just not my thing. :S

No problem, thanks for the suggestions .

Nylex

This is from the Webmin FAQ's

You may have to change it round a little for slackware
Not sure it it helps, but I am looking

Pete

Pete M, GENIUS! That's done it, thank you very much . I couldn't find the FAQ to be honest oops.

Nylex

For future reference

Webmin FAQ's

Glad to help a fellow Midlander

Pete

Thanks for the link .

PS: I'm a Londoner.. Bham's only for uni .

Nylex

Ok

Glad to help a part-time fellow Midlander

Pete