Thanks Linux Addict, it did work. I was able to see the swat page finally. Now the question is how to tell it to accept my root login!
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Linux Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Santiago Andres Triana > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hosts.allow has the internal network and hosts.deny is set to ALL(ALL). > > > > This might seem silly but I just don't know how to run swat if it is not > > from /etc/xinetd.d/swat. Just issuing /usr/sbin/swat doesn't do anything > > even if I remove swat from /etc/xinetd.d/ and(or) /etc/services/ . By > the > > same token I don't know how to use strace to check on its behavior... How > do > > you run swat in the foreground? > > > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Linux Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Santiago Andres Triana > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > yes, /usr/sbin/swat exists > >> > > >> > and every time I try to login from a web browswer a new line appears > in > >> > /var/log/authpriv indicating that SWAT started with a pid number. How > do > >> > I > >> > use strace to see what SWAT is doing? Issuing strace -p somepid while > >> > the > >> > authentication dialog box is displayed does not work. Thanks everybody > >> > for > >> > the prompt responses! (the problem still withstanding...) > >> > -- > >> > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >> > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >> > > >> > >> 1. Can u check /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow ? Check selinux as > >> well. Disable selinux " setenforce 0" > >> > >> 2. Run swat on foreground with debug enabled, auth disabled.. and test > it. > >> > >> $ swat --help > >> Usage: swat [OPTION...] > >> -a, --disable-authentication Disable authentication (demo mode) > >> -P, --password-menu-only Show only change password menu > >> > >> Help options: > >> -?, --help Show this help message > >> --usage Display brief usage message > >> > >> Common samba options: > >> -d, --debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL Set debug level > >> -s, --configfile=CONFIGFILE Use alternate configuration file > >> -l, --log-basename=LOGFILEBASE Base name for log files > >> -V, --version Print version > >> > >> hope you are home this time.. > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > > > > All right.. Append " server_args = -a -d=5" on your > /etc/xinetd.d/swat and restart xinetd. This shud allow you w/o any > authentication and also enable verbose logging. Hit > http://hostname:901 and see what happens... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
