[Techtalk] WebMin Refused

[Andrew]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:55:19 -0500
Glen Strom <gstrom at eol.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:16:38 -0500
> Andrew <showork at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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. 

 Glen Wrote;

> I have an older version of Webmin (an rpm) lying around so I installed
> it on my system (Red Hat 7.2) to see how it goes.
> 
> After the program installed, it showed a message that said, "Webmin
> install complete. You can now login to http://herring_sucker: 10000/
> as root with your root password."

 ******Yes this is exactly what I saw and did up until "connection
refused"****
 *** I typed, and pasted, neither worked! Also just as a check, I tried
"Usermin" it recomends *****https://Hostfoo:20000.  Something is
stopping (refusing) both Webmin and Usermin. ***


> I typed the address into the browser and the logon screen came up. I
> entered  "root" as the username and my root password as the password.
> I then had access to the program's interface.

	**** So Far I'm stopped cold  before getting in ****
 
> Is this similar to what you did?

	**yes**
> 
> I don't know how Mandrake's security levels work, but I have my
> security level set to "high" and it doesn't interfere with Webmin.
> 
> If you still have trouble, perhaps you could reinstall Webmin and
> follow what I did. It *should* work (famous last words). ;-> -- 
> Glen Strom
> gstrom at eol.ca

	Glen Thanks for the effort, Both user and web "min" show the same
problem (refused) so I believe they are, as reported, working and
sucessfully installed. If you disagree let me know. Nice to know yours
works with high security levels.

	Andrew

	I am begining to wonder if RedHat 8+ is less trouble...? probably the
GUI would be less confusing... repeatedly Mandrake GUI administrative
tools simply don't work...