Webmin Not Installing Correctly Without Root Password

[John]

Brett Kirksey wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 at 16:54+1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> 
> 
>>Brett Kirksey wrote:
>>
>>>Seems like something should be changed about this package to get it 
>>>working correctly under Ubuntu.
>>
>>Well, that's the whole point of 'universe' - these are unsupported 
>>packages that have *compiled* for ubuntu, but not been integrated with it.
>>
>>If you can work out a process for installing webmin without creating a 
>>root password, then describe it on the list. Perhaps someone will make a 
>>patch for the package - universe packages will be updated if someone 
>>else provides the patch for it :-)
> 
> 
> Since I have no idea how the installer or packages work, I can't be of much help. If the "setup.sh" were included in the package as it is with other distributions, then one could just run that script to get it working properly. Other than that, it's beyond me. :-(
> 
> Brett
> 

webmin is fairly easily cracked (by one with root access) by simply 
editing its password file.

I surpise it would be pretty easy to similarly hack it in the 
post-install script to add the admin user (uid=1000 I guess, but maybe 
get/check the name from suders) to the webmin initial config with full 
admin access (or enough access to get full controll).