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Webmin?

Asked by george_rutkay

I have been struggling and wasting many hours this evening (it's 1 am now) with this webserver password issue.......I stumbled across something called Webmin. I installed it.

Does anybody have any suggestions or recommendations about this? I still can't get a password or login assigned to the computer's web server.....but Webmin seems like a very powerful graphical tool and it shows things in a clear structure.

How can I use Webmin to set up a login and password on my web server?

Anybody, please help?

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#1

It's 1:16 am now. I'm trying right now under "Others/Web Protected Directories" from within Webmin to set up the login and passwords. But I keep getting this error message:

Failed to save user : Failed to open /www/passwords/password.file for writing : Bad file descriptor

So I went into /var/www/ and created a passwords directory where there was none.

Then I filled it with a file that I had created earlier during these struggles to learn this stuff.....this file has the names and passwords in it. How do I know?

I copied the file from my /usr/local/apache2/passwd/ directory where some other "thing" I tried earlier this evening ended up creating the user names and encoded passwords.

I copy and pasted this file into /var/www/ and it didn't solve anything.

Um.....ok.....what does that mean?

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#2

I've just recently discovered (today in fact) that there are user groups in Canada - I never knew that!

So I've submitted my question to them.

I'll mark this as "solved" although I'm no closer to a solution. Eventually my hope is to take the knowledge I have gained from this and use it to set up a website (complete with a secure login) over at the family farm for their business.