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brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

[Solved] Can't Connect To Webmin

edit: Apparently shorewall was blocking the connection, but does anyone know how to get rid of that error message?

I've installed webmin from the repositories and it starts successfully, but I can't connect to it. I've enabled access to other hosts and I have tried to access it via HTTP and HTTPS, along with via the IP address and the hostname. Nothing works.

Here's some of the info from the journal

[bran@alarm ~]$ systemctl status webmin
webmin.service - Webmin
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/webmin.service; enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Sat 2014-02-22 23:35:57 EST; 2s ago
  Process: 10232 ExecStart=/etc/webmin/start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 10232 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Feb 22 23:35:55 alarm start[10232]: Starting Webmin server in /opt/webmin
Feb 22 23:35:55 alarm perl[10232]: pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=root
Feb 22 23:35:57 alarm webmin[10232]: Webmin starting
Feb 22 23:35:57 alarm start[10232]: Pre-loaded WebminCore
Feb 22 23:35:57 alarm systemd[1]: Started Webmin.

I get that no matter if I start it with the root account or my normal user. I've also tried using the packages from the webmin site but still get the same error. This seems to be a problem with PAM I believe.

root exists in /etc/webmin/miniserv.users

root:x/0:0

/var/log/webmin/miniserv.err

[22/Feb/2014:23:35:57 -0500] miniserv.pl started
[22/Feb/2014:23:35:57 -0500] Using MD5 module Digest::MD5
[22/Feb/2014:23:35:57 -0500] PAM authentication enabled

no other logs exist.

Last edited by brando56894 (2014-02-24 02:55:39)

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: [Solved] Can't Connect To Webmin

The systemctl output does not incicate an error state. You could try to execute the webmin command in the service file directly to see what happens without invoking SystemD.

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Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: [Solved] Can't Connect To Webmin

Also; nothing works is not a clear indication of what goes wrong; what is the output of `curl -v WEBMIN_URL` ?

Last edited by Spider.007 (2014-02-23 11:59:50)

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Can't Connect To Webmin

I got it to work, apparently shorewall was blocking the connection.

Tiki

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Registered: 2014-06-14

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Can't Connect To Webmin

Hi I have the same peoblem what did you do to solve it so we can reference it if someone else has the same problem.

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Can't Connect To Webmin

Sorry I can't remember what I did as I don't use a self-made router anymore. I just remember that webmin was dropping or rejecting the packets to my pc that it was running on.