Features have disapeared.

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#1 Wed, 10/24/2007 - 12:51
REMartin

Features have disapeared.

I'm using version 3.48 on a CentOS 5 server. Until last night, I could create a new virtual server. I'm not able to find the option in the menu now. Also, I was able to select a script to load various applications, (such as Joomla or others),but now, cannot find the option to select.

Wed, 10/24/2007 - 13:14
REMartin

False alarm. I've logged in wrong on the server. Once logging in correctly, I have the features I thought were missing. Must have to do with permissions. I'm in the learning curve. Please forgive wasting your time.

Thu, 10/25/2007 - 18:03
Joe
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Did you, perhaps, create a virtual server owned by root? (This nonsensical choice trips up quite a few folks...we need to make it impossible to do.)

If so, you basically made Webmin apply all of the restrictions that a virtual hosting user would have to the root user...which makes a lot of things "disappear". Because Webmin doesn't actually have a "super user" concept--any user can be restricted in any way you want--it's possible to pull the system right out from under root.

To fix it, you'll have to hit the command line.

Edit the file /etc/webmin/webmin.acl

And find the root: user line, and change it to:

root: backup-config change-user translator usermin virtualmin-notes server-manager webminlog webmin servers acl bacula-backup init passwd quota mount fsdump ldap-client ldap-useradmin logrotate mailcap mon pam proc at cron sentry software inittab man syslog useradmin virtualmin-init security-updates virtualmin-awstats apache bind8 pserver dhcpd dovecot fetchmail frox jabber majordomo mysql openslp postfix postgresql proftpd procmail qmailadmin mailboxes sshd samba sendmail spam sarg squid virtualmin-google-analytics virtualmin-mailman virtualmin-svn virtual-server virtual-server-gpl wuftpd webalizer adsl-client bandwidth ipsec krb5 firewall exports nis net nettools pap ppp-client pptp-client pptp-server stunnel shorewall virtualmin-registrar idmapd filter burner grub raid lvm fdisk lpadmin smart-status time vgetty cluster-passwd cluster-copy cluster-cron cluster-shell cluster-software cluster-usermin cluster-useradmin cluster-webmin cfengine heartbeat shell custom file tunnel phpini php-pear cpan htaccess-htpasswd ruby-gems telnet status updown virtualmin-dav virtualmin-htpasswd virtual-server-svn dfsadmin dnsadmin inetd ipfilter ipfw lilo smf syslog-ng xinetd virtualmin-oracle virtualmin-mysqluser virtualmin-signup

Note this is all on one line.

Once that's done, you can use the Webmin Users and Groups module to re-permit full access to all of the effected modules (Virtualmin, MySQL, Apache, BIND, PostgreSQL...I believe that's all...but I might be missing one or two.)

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