User can't select Virtualmin tab

[vmin]

Operating system AlmaLinux 9.3
Webmin version 2.105
Virtualmin version 7.9.0

if log on using my user account, i cannot select the Virtualmin tab - the UI switches back to the Dashboard tab

given my mouse buttons are a bit sensitive, i suspect i may have accidentally clicked a settings and disabled access to Virtualmin for non-root users, however i looked through the settings pretty carefully and i can’t find anything wrong

miniserv.log…

45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:50 -0500] "POST /session_login.cgi HTTP/1.1" 302 0
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:50 -0500] "GET /service-worker.js HTTP/1.1" 200 141
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:51 -0500] "GET /service-worker.js HTTP/1.1" 200 141
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:51 -0500] "POST /index.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 131
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:51 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 89387
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:51 -0500] "POST /index.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 1
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:51 -0500] "GET /sysinfo.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 7914
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:52 -0500] "GET /service-worker.js HTTP/1.1" 200 141
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:54 -0500] "GET /sysinfo.cgi?mod=virtual-server HTTP/1.1" 200 7960
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:54 -0500] "GET /xhr.cgi?type=nav&action=get&subtype=virtualmin&dom= HTTP/1.1" 200 8509
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:54 -0500] "GET /index.cgi/?xhr-info=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 6116
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:54 -0500] "POST /xhr.cgi?type=file&action=motd&subtype=receive HTTP/1.1" 200 11
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:56 -0500] "GET /index.cgi/?xhr-info=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 6116
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:57 -0500] "GET /sysinfo.cgi?mod=virtual-server HTTP/1.1" 200 8304
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:57 -0500] "GET /xhr.cgi?type=nav&action=get&subtype=virtualmin&dom= HTTP/1.1" 200 8509
45.15.18.72 - admin [28/Feb/2024:19:55:59 -0500] "GET /index.cgi/?xhr-info=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 6116
45.15.18.72 - - [28/Feb/2024:19:56:02 -0500] "GET /session_login.cgi?logout=1 HTTP/1.1" 401 5205
45.15.18.72 - - [28/Feb/2024:19:56:02 -0500] "GET /service-worker.js HTTP/1.1" 401 5036

new info: from the dashboard, if i select logs and reports and click on a log to view, the Virtualmin tab loads

another thing i’m seeing is that the backups options are missing for the user on the Virtualmin tab - only the following are available:

Virtual Server Details
Edit Users
File Manager
Webmin Modules
Manage Virtual Server
Services
Mail Options
Logs and Reports
List Virtual Servers

[stefan1959]

When I click on Virtualmin it shows this, I think that’s normal behavior.

[vmin]

but can you switch to the Virtualmin tab?

[shoulders]

@vmin

What you are showing is being logged in as a user and this behaviour is normal because:

• You effectively are always on the Virtualmin Tab
• You do not have the webmin tab so the empty tab is filled with a Dashboard Tab which acts as a shortcut to the dashboard.
• If you click on the virtualmin tab you will be taken to the dashboard / dashboard tab

When you are logged in as root you have the following

and here you can see the webmin Tab is present.

[vmin]

i’m lost here - if a user logs on, how do they access the backup and restore module?

the only way i can get to that is from webmin

[ID10T]

Did you allow them access to the service?

[Joe]

You want users to access the Webmin filesystem backup module? That’d provide root-level access to the data on the system, so that doesn’t seem right.

Virtualmin backup privileges can be granted to a domain owner user. Restore is trickier, as there are security implications of allowing a user to modify config files, which a domain backup does.

[vmin]

@Joe

You want users to access the Webmin filesystem backup module?

nosir!

@Joe

Virtualmin backup privileges can be granted to a domain owner user.

and therein lies the problem … i never intentionally disabled it, but i may have by accident

from where does one check this, 'cause i looked everywhere (webmin modules, server templates, user settings, etc., etc.)

[vmin]

this doesn’t seem right…

virtualmin > system settings > account plans

[vmin]

this is no longer an issue - apparently, somehow, backups became disabled for non-root users, perhaps through another module config or something - no idea