Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
 This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on
 a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and
 Windows Vista.

 I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration.

I would not recommend this route, as I do not trust Webmin to not 
obliterate my various configs. The CUPS front end is much better, it is 
found on the CUPS server at port 631 from your browser. If memory 
serves, your regular root password should work just fine

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Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
 On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
  This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on
  a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and
  Windows Vista.
 
  I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration.

 I would not recommend this route, as I do not trust Webmin to not
 obliterate my various configs. The CUPS front end is much better, it is
 found on the CUPS server at port 631 from your browser. If memory
 serves, your regular root password should work just fine

It's been some years now and can't remember if webmin has its own root account 
(different from the OS root account).  Have you tried login with root as the 
username and your normal user passwd?

I also can't remember what the CUPS interface was on webmin, but what Alan 
suggests above has always worked for me (once I manage to get the right path 
for the printer).

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/14/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
  On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
   This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on
   a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and
   Windows Vista.
  
   I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration.
 
  I would not recommend this route, as I do not trust Webmin to not
  obliterate my various configs. The CUPS front end is much better, it is
  found on the CUPS server at port 631 from your browser. If memory
  serves, your regular root password should work just fine


 It's been some years now and can't remember if webmin has its own root
 account
 (different from the OS root account).  Have you tried login with root as
 the
 username and your normal user passwd?

 I also can't remember what the CUPS interface was on webmin, but what Alan
 suggests above has always worked for me (once I manage to get the right
 path
 for the printer).


The 631 port is working for me.  What's odd is that I cannot get the stalled
jobs to
print.  This evening I'll turn debugging on and try again.  Info to
follow...

++ kevin




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Re: [gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-14 Thread Dale

Mick wrote:


It's been some years now and can't remember if webmin has its own root account 
(different from the OS root account).  Have you tried login with root as the 
username and your normal user passwd?


I also can't remember what the CUPS interface was on webmin, but what Alan 
suggests above has always worked for me (once I manage to get the right path 
for the printer).


HTH.
  


I just tried it on mine and the systems root password works fine here.  
I had to figure out where they hid cups tho.  Search tool helped find it.


Does one have to use webmin to access cups?  I always go to it directly, 
port 631 that is.


Dale


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[gentoo-user] Webmin not accepting root logins

2008-04-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a
separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista.

I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration.  I've done it
before, but now my attempt to log in has failied, and done so with such
persistence that webmin now says Error - Access denied for 127.0.0.1. The
host has been blocked because of too many authentication failures.

I was trying both my regular user login and my root login.  Neither one
worked.

The obvious questions:
 1) Should I have used some other login?  I don't remember setting up
anything else.
 2) Can I undo the lock out?
 3) Can I enable an account that I'm likely to remember?

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD