I am fairly new to the Webmin application and had some questions. I am currently running Webmin on an AIX 5.3 box. I tried reloading the application a few times and it does work, the installation works fine. The problem that I am having is when I go to the http://hostname:1000 it shows the login page and I am able to login but the only information it shows is the system information and a logout button. The menu with all the modules does not display at all. I have tried reload and restarting services though it seems to have no effect.
I have spend some time trying to find similar issues in forums and thread but have not found any related problems.
Maybe someone has seen this and found some similar issues.
This is the only error I could find in the logs:
techie # more miniserv.error
[05/Jun/2008:08:36:38 -0500] miniserv.pl started
[05/Jun/2008:08:36:38 -0500] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not installed : Can’t locate Authen/PAM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /webmin/bin /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 4) line 1.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 1.
The PAM error is harmless. PAM is only needed if you’re authenticating to NIS or LDAP.
I suspect something is messy in your root or admin acl file. It sounds like your user doesn’t have access to any modules. Look at the webmin.acl file in the Webmin configuration directory…see if the root: line has a bunch of stuff in it, or if it is empty. Empty would be what I would expect to see with your problem description…but it ought to look like:
If you don’t have a big list of modules like that, then just copy-paste mine in and save it, and restart Webmin. If you do already have that (or close enough–mine has quite a few additional modules that yours won’t have), then I’m probably stumped. We’ll need to look a bit deeper.
I tried adding in those webmin.acl entries cause they were not there. Though after a restart of services, then a reboot in case I missed something they still don’t show up.
I just reinstalled this not long ago so no OS/Tech Level/Fix packs have been loaded. Nothing seems to be causing problems though OS wise. I did use the setup.sh for the install and it found no errors with perl or any other dependancies.
I am baffled as to what could be causing the problems.
One other note is that the webmin.acl file that I am editing is in my /webmin/config/webmin.acl if that is in fact where it should be located. I could not find another file in the filesystem called webmin.acl
Also I would solve the module Authen::PAM issues as it seem to need it badly lol
It doesn’t need it for most systems. PAM is used for authenticating to NIS or LDAP, otherwise it falls back to authenticating to shadow without problem.
Oh my gosh!! I got it guys with your help with the acl file. The problem was the user entered in the setup was not root it was admin. Could have been the problem.
One other note is that the webmin.acl file that I am editing is in my /webmin/config/webmin.acl if that is in fact where it should be located. I could not find another file in the filesystem called webmin.acl
You would know better than us, though the default is /etc/webmin. But the setup.sh script will allow you to alter any of the directories where Webmin resides. Some command line tools within Webmin might not handle directories other than /etc/webmin for the configuration (you’d just have to set a couple of environment variables), but nothing else should have trouble. And I’m pretty sure this isn’t caused by configuration being in a non-default location.
The state of your underlying system also shouldn’t have any impact on this particular problem–you might need to update some of Webmin’s module configuration to suit your system, but that is an issue well past where we are right now.
Are you actually logging into Webmin as root or some other user?
