[Samba] Re: swat password

[Linux Addict]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Santiago Andres Triana
<triana at physics.umd.edu> 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 <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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>
>

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..