Very first virtualmin install - access removed

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#1 Thu, 03/03/2016 - 04:04
seoguy

Very first virtualmin install - access removed

Hi folks,

I had installed virtualmin on a RHEL system and a couple of very strange problems have cropped up.

Firstly, the Apache test page now says - powered by CentOS instead of RHEL. All the files and filesystems are intact therefore I am at a loss as to why it would report another version of linux altogether.

Secondly, my sudo access has been overwritten / removed after installation. It just comes up with a message that XXXX (username) does not have sudo access....etc

And lastly, trying to access the virtualmin page over the port 10000 is just returning an "unable to connect" error. [Since I am locked out of using sudo, I am at a loss of how to proceed].

Thank you in advance for your help.

Thu, 03/03/2016 - 10:25
andreychek

Howdy,

The Apache package you're using was built on CentOS, which is causing the message you're seeing.

That's no problem though, you can create a new domain and set it as the default. That would prevent anyone from seeing that default page.

Regarding sudo -- Webmin and Virtualmin don't make any changes to the sudoers file. I suspect something else may have occurred around the same time as your installation to cause the issue you're seeing.

Do you have a root password set? You could always use "su" rather than "sudo". Otherwise you may need to boot into single user mode to either add a root password, or correct the sudoers file.

We can troubleshoot why you are unable to connect to port 10000 -- but you'd need root privileges to do that. It may be a firewall issue, or just a matter of restarting Webmin.

-Eric

Thu, 03/03/2016 - 11:52
seoguy

Thank you very much Eric.

You have pointed me in the correct direction. Doing a little bit of digging around, I noticed that my command prompt has changed from [username@machinename dir]$ to [username@domainnname dir] $

I am assuming that when I added the default domain on Virtualmin, this change happened...and therefore the new instance / account of this user does not have the required privileges to run a command as a sudo user (please correct me or if my thought process is incorrect).

[[ If I am way of target here ... what should I tell my hosts to do to resolve the issue ... ideally I would like to resolve this issue myself -- so that I can learn]]

Thanks once again

Fri, 03/04/2016 - 13:07
joe443

There is an alternative command pkexec available on newer Linuxes that sometimes works when sudo doesn't, because pkexec doesn't rely on a valid /etc/sudoers file. Try it and see.

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