On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Santiago Andres Triana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Linux Addict, it did work. > > I was able to see the swat page finally. Now the question is how to tell it > to accept my root login! > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Linux Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Santiago Andres Triana >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > hosts.allow has the internal network and hosts.deny is set to ALL(ALL). >> > >> > This might seem silly but I just don't know how to run swat if it is not >> > from /etc/xinetd.d/swat. Just issuing /usr/sbin/swat doesn't do anything >> > even if I remove swat from /etc/xinetd.d/ and(or) /etc/services/ . By >> > the >> > same token I don't know how to use strace to check on its behavior... >> > How do >> > you run swat in the foreground? >> > >> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Linux Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Santiago Andres Triana >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > yes, /usr/sbin/swat exists >> >> > >> >> > and every time I try to login from a web browswer a new line appears >> >> > in >> >> > /var/log/authpriv indicating that SWAT started with a pid number. How >> >> > do >> >> > I >> >> > use strace to see what SWAT is doing? Issuing strace -p somepid while >> >> > the >> >> > authentication dialog box is displayed does not work. Thanks >> >> > everybody >> >> > for >> >> > the prompt responses! (the problem still withstanding...) >> >> > -- >> >> > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> >> > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >> >> > >> >> >> >> 1. Can u check /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow ? Check selinux as >> >> well. Disable selinux " setenforce 0" >> >> >> >> 2. Run swat on foreground with debug enabled, auth disabled.. and test >> >> it. >> >> >> >> $ swat --help >> >> Usage: swat [OPTION...] >> >> -a, --disable-authentication Disable authentication (demo mode) >> >> -P, --password-menu-only Show only change password menu >> >> >> >> Help options: >> >> -?, --help Show this help message >> >> --usage Display brief usage message >> >> >> >> Common samba options: >> >> -d, --debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL Set debug level >> >> -s, --configfile=CONFIGFILE Use alternate configuration file >> >> -l, --log-basename=LOGFILEBASE Base name for log files >> >> -V, --version Print version >> >> >> >> hope you are home this time.. >> >> -- >> >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >> > >> > >> >> All right.. Append " server_args = -a -d=5" on your >> /etc/xinetd.d/swat and restart xinetd. This shud allow you w/o any >> authentication and also enable verbose logging. Hit >> http://hostname:901 and see what happens... >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >
On the SWAT page itself you have a password tab. Reset the password there, remove the -a option on xinet.d/swat, restart the xinetd. Hope it fixes.. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
