See bottom.
Recently, somebody somewhere said:
> On Wednesday 26 December 2001 11:40 am, you wrote:
> > Ted Ozolins wrote:
> > > I still can not log into webmin. I'll rpm -e webmin and re-install it
> > > and see if that fixes the beast. I can log into swat with no problems.
> > > I'm using Mozilla as the browser.
> > >
> > > Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
> > > Westbank, B. C.
> >
> > What port are you trying to connect to? Webmin (depending on the
> > version) is usually at:
> > http://localhost:10000 or
> > https://localhost:1000 (secure)
>
> I've tried both with no joy. This is definately a first for me. I've never
> had prob's logging into webmin on any other distro (Caldera, Redhat,
> Mandrake nor Redmond) I have not had much time to play with this, I'll
> hack at it some more tomorrow. The login window comes up, I enter "root"
> and "mypassword_for_root" and each time it returns "LOGIN FAILED":(
I got this, and some nice guy threw me this lifeline: Check for
/etc/securetty. Mine reads like this
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty1
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty2
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty3
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty4
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty5
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty6
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
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