Password change and now I'm locked out

Virtualmin
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O.K. I tried the above and got: Can’t locate

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You have to run changepass.pl from the Webmin dir. It uses relative paths. Run it from within /usr/libexec/webmin.

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Hi Joe, I keep getting this error:

Can't locate ./acl/md5-lib.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl line 6.

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At this point I’m starting to believe Webmin is corrupted. Can I remove and re-install? without causing any issues?

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Don’t do that. That’s almost certainly not what this is. This is what happens when you run changepass.pl from the wrong place.

Just verify the package.

rpm -V webmin

That should have very little or no output. If it spits out a bunch, then, yes, something has changed Webmin and then we can proceed from there, but don’t fuck up your system just because you can’t make the changepass.pl script run.

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O.K. I ran this and nothing. It just went on to #

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To run this command do this as root, it will work fine:

# cd /usr/libexec/webmin
# ./changepass.pl

That will print usage information if everything is working. Then you can run the command to reset your root password.

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O.K. I got this
`This assumes that /etc/webmin is the Webmin configuration directory.
[root@ns10 webmin]# ./changepass.pl
usage: changepass.pl

This program allows you to change the password of a user in the Webmin
password file. For example, to change the password of the admin user
to foo, you would run:
changepass.pl /etc/webmin admin foo
This assumes that /etc/webmin is the Webmin configuration directory.
[root@ns10 webmin]#
`

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I did this:

[root@ns10 webmin]# passwd Changing password for user root. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. [root@ns10 webmin]#
But is still doesn’t login

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Then I guess you’ve locked yourself out with bad passwords. You can wait a while, or you can manually remove that IP by editing /etc/miniserv.conf and removing the deny= line with your IP in it.

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running it like this:

[root@ns10 webmin]# changepass.pl /etc/webmin admin pass
-bash: changepass.pl: command not found
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/etc/miniserv.conf

-bash: /etc/miniserv.conf: No such file or directory

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You’ll need to restart Webmin after editing miniserv.conf.

The means it’s not in your path (and it is not supposed to be, this is not a command anybody ever needs to run, usually). I told you how to run it (with ./changepass.pl).

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Er, /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf.

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/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
-bash: /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf: Permission denied

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You’re exhausting me, friend. I said edit the file.

Like with a text editor.

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I’m sorry Joe… I’m a novice in this… How do I edit a file that I can’t open?

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You open it with a text editor. e.g. nano /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

But, you probably want to make a backup copy of that file first, since you’re having a hard time with the command line…it’s possible to make Webmin refuse to start with some changes you could make in that file. But, just deleting deny= lines is safe.

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I’m sorry but, deny= is not there…

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port=xxxxx
addtype_cgi=internal/cgi
realm=Webmin Server
logfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.log
errorlog=/var/webmin/miniserv.error
pidfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.pid
logtime=168
ssl=1
no_ssl2=1
no_ssl3=1
no_tls1=1
no_tls1_1=1
ssl_honorcipherorder=1
no_sslcompression=1
env_WEBMIN_CONFIG=/etc/webmin
env_WEBMIN_VAR=/var/webmin
atboot=1
logout=/etc/webmin/logout-flag
listen=xxxxx