Apt update warnings

Markoamb · October 19, 2020, 4:03pm

Operating system:Ubuntu
OS version:20.4
Since installation of Virtualmin I see this:

Usage of apt_auth.conf(5) should be preferred over embedding login information directly in the sources.list(5) entry for ‘http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt’
N: Usage of apt_auth.conf(5) should be preferred over embedding login information directly in the sources.list(5) entry for ‘http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt’

How to change virtualmin apt source list to get rid of this warnings?
Thank you

Ilia · October 19, 2020, 7:20pm

Hi,

Thanks, we’ll fix this in the future.

Meanwhile, you can manually :

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualmin.list and remove your login and password information from it
Create a new /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/virtualmin.conf file and place in it:

     machine software.virtualmin.com login 0000000 password YourPassword

@Jamie - should we fix this as part of config check, as it’s fairly easy?

Jamie · October 20, 2020, 6:35am

Seems like we could use this new config file in the Virtualmin install process. Only question is how widely supported it is…

Ilia · October 20, 2020, 9:12am

Quite many - Debian 10, Ubuntu 18-20.

Markoamb · October 20, 2020, 11:43am

@Ilia , thank you very much for your answer.
I will try your solution later tonight and I will get back here with a result…

Best regards
Marko

Markoamb · October 20, 2020, 12:42pm

@Ilia I am not sure how to correctly create new file “virtualmin.conf”. Can you please help me out.
You wrote that in this file there should be:

machine software.virtualmin.com login 0000000 password YourPassword

my qustions are:

machine ? is this just a word as you wrote or do I need to change it with something else
login ? do I just leave the word login as is or?
0000000 ? - is this my virtualmin software licence number?
password ? same qustion, do I just leave the word as you wrote?
YourPassword ? is this my License key for Virtualmin software or?

Thank you for your help.

Markoamb · October 20, 2020, 1:12pm

I have figured it out using ‘man apt_auth.conf’ but somehow it is not working. I am getting error IP not authorized . So there is still something what I’m missing but I don’t know what…

Ilia · October 20, 2020, 6:00pm

It’s because the transfer protocol should be set as https and not http on /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualmin.list file, like this :

Ubuntu 20.04 repos:

deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal main
deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal main

Markoamb · October 21, 2020, 12:55pm

Dear @Ilia

This is what I have now:
in a file:
/etc/apt/auth.conf.d/virtualmin.conf

machine deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal main login XXXXXXX password MyPassword
machine deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal main login XXXXXXX password MyPassword

where XXXXXXX above are my virtualmin licence serial number and for “MyPassword” I wrote my Virtalmin License key (I hope this is correct settings?)

and in a file:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualmin.list I have:

deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal main
deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal main

But I still get error when using apt update:

Err:16 https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal InRelease
401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
Err:17 https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal InRelease
401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
Reading package lists… Done
E: Failed to fetch https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt/dists/virtualmin-focal/InRelease 401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
E: The repository ‘https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal InRelease’ is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt/dists/virtualmin-universal/InRelease 401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
E: The repository ‘https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal InRelease’ is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I don’t know what is that I am doing wrong.

Please advise.

Best regards
Marko

Ilia · October 21, 2020, 8:05pm

Try for /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/virtualmin.conf :

machine software.virtualmin.com login MyLogin password MyPassword

Markoamb · October 22, 2020, 7:01am

Hello dear @Ilia
Thank you very much to try to help me but I have to inform you that I tried your last suggestion and I got same error message as I posted above.
So, I am sorry but no success with settings as you wrote.

Try for /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/virtualmin.conf :
machine software.virtualmin.com login MyLogin password MyPassword

(using Serial number for MyLogin and and License key for MyPassword)

I am trying all sorts of setting this up but no success.
Do you have any more suggestions?

Kind regards
Marko

Ilia · October 22, 2020, 9:37am

What is the output of :

cat /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/virtualmin.conf

… and

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualmin.list

Joe · October 22, 2020, 1:28pm

Don’t post user/password, though! Sanitize that output before posting.

Markoamb · October 22, 2020, 3:43pm

Hello @Ilia & @Joe

Here is the output of cat:

cat /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/virtualmin.conf
machine software.virtualmin.com login XXXXXX password MyPassword
machine software.virtualmin.com login XXXXXX password MyPassword

and the other one:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualmin.list
deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal main
deb https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal main

and the error ehen running “apt update” :

Err:16 https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal InRelease
401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
Err:17 https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal InRelease
401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
Reading package lists… Done
E: Failed to fetch https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt/dists/virtualmin-focal/InRelease 401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
E: The repository ‘https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-focal InRelease’ is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt/dists/virtualmin-universal/InRelease 401 Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]
E: The repository ‘https://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/apt virtualmin-universal InRelease’ is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Ilia · October 25, 2020, 9:15am

Unauthorized [IP: 163.172.162.254 443]

Double check that serial and license entered correctly.

It works for me.

Try running:

apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean

Markoamb · October 26, 2020, 8:37am

Dear @Ilia

I am so sorry about problems I caused. I double checked the credential as you mentioned and I found errata in password.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Now ‘app update’ works without problem.
Kind regards
Marko

Ilia · October 26, 2020, 9:04am

No problem, Marko! Have a good day!