[Samba] Re: swat password
Santiago Andres Triana
triana at physics.umd.edu
Thu May 22 20:21:40 GMT 2008
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 <linuxaddict7 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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