[Techtalk] WebMin Refused

[Andrew]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:53:37 -0800
Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 05 December 2002 20:44, Glen Strom wrote:
> > > Hi Glen,
> > >  I could feel a bit foolish, I am going to try from root. I was
> > >  triing
> > > fom a su terminal window.
> >
> > My memory of Webmin is vague, but I don't think you can accessed it
> > through a terminal--it's meant to be accessed through your browser.
> 
> Yes, Webmin is browser- based. It has its own user authentication, so
> it does not matter what account you sign in from. Type
> http://host:10000 in any browser, 'host' being either the hostname or
> IP of the machine you're logging into. http://localhost:10000 on the
> local machine.
> 
> Various incarnations of Webmin behave differently; if
> http://localhost:10000 doesn't bring up the login window, try either
> https://localhost:10000, or http://localhost:1000
> 
> it's well-documented, see 
> http://www.swelltech.com/support/webminguide-1.0/index.html and 
> http://www.webmin.com/
> -- 
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Hi Carla, Glen,
	I have been reading the manual(both of the above) almost letter by
letter. This ain't covered ;-). The manuals guess "you" can at least get
in. The connection is refused! now again on this last attempt, as root. 
I understand now, being root is not necessary. Yes? N?
	My sign in "localhost" name has a mix of Caps and lower case, I don't
think it is the problem but the browser converts them to all lower
case.???
	"Refused" means to me, it got there, but ain't lett'n me in. I use the
output (produced/recomemded by) from webmin start/stop/...sbin/service
for "localhost:10000" (paraphrased).
	Mandrake has 3 preconfigured security settings upon instalation. I
chose the middle setting and don't know how to undo this. In the back of
my mind I remember reading about allow/deny and ipchains. I believe this
Mandrake 8.2 uses iptables and I have yet to study up on that. Could
security settings and/or iptables be the problem be the problem? This
was a GUI standard install. 

	Thank You,
	Andrew