[Samba] Re: swat password

Linux Addict linuxaddict7 at gmail.com
Thu May 22 18:55:33 GMT 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Santiago Andres Triana
<triana at physics.umd.edu> 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 <linuxaddict7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Santiago Andres Triana
>> <triana at physics.umd.edu> 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...)
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>>
>> 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..
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>
>

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...


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