[Samba] Re: swat password

[Santiago Andres Triana]

Swat won't allow me to reset any passwords while in demo mode...

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Linux Addict <linuxaddict7 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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..
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