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so no one knows how a user is supposed to recover their password?
I didn't even know Usermin had password reset functionality! But, I guess it does, if you have the Virtualmin Password Recovery module. You may need to install it, if you don't have it, already.
You can do that on CentOS with:
Or Debian/Ubuntu:
After installing it you should see a "Forgot your Usermin password?" link on the Usermin login page, which works the same as it does for Webmin/Virtualmin.
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looks like im no longer stuck in moderation purgatory...but what happened to my pending replies?
Doesn't work for me, and:
# apt-get install webmin-virtualmin-password-recoveryReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
webmin-virtualmin-password-recovery is already the newest version.
No "Forgot your Usermin password?" appears.
It works for me. Once I installed the virtualmin-password-recovery module, I get a "Password recovery" button on the login page for Usermin (and Webmin), with no other changes; I didn't need to enable it, it just started showing up (though users would have to have their password recovery email set in order for it to actually do something useful). Looks like this:
What OS and version are you using? That shouldn't make a difference, but I assume there must be something broken on some system, because it causes so much confusion and I've never been able to make it not Just Work when I installed it.
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Debian 8 and Virtualmin GPL.
I'm pretty sure it is the GPL version that isn't up to snuff, as I said in this request for support:
https://www.virtualmin.com/comment/777683#comment-777683
It works on a system I have running Virtualmin Pro.
Here are the GPL Virtualmin system versions:
Operating system Debian Linux 8Webmin version 1.844
Usermin version 1.711
Virtualmin version 5.99
Theme version Authentic Theme 18.49-8
Just out of curiosity I tried on mine - Centos 7 with GPL version
As soon as I installed it
yum install wbm-virtualmin-password-recoveryThe button appeared on my login just like Joe's image. It doesn't do anthing so I will have to figure out how it is supposed to work now.
@Joe - how do you insert an image in the post
We use markdown in the forum, so the usual markdown syntax like this works:
I usually host my images at imgur, just because I already have an account there and it's reasonable easy. Attachments directly in Drupal are possible but clumsy as hell, so we don't really use that feature. I'd like to get us onto a forum with nicer image capabilities eventually (among other nicer things), but it'll be a while as migrations are a serious pain.
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Actually it does try to access: https://myDomain.com:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery/usermin.cgi
But I get a Server Not Found error
EDIT: it is redirecting to
https://Server.Domain.com:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery (the FQDN of the server) and I get the Error page
If I change this to
https://www.domain.com:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery it goes to the proper page.
If I just use https://domain.com:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery
It goes to an adminstrators page for setting the recovery email (Customize Recovery Email)
You should make sure the FQDN of the server is resolving for the world. There are some other subtle problems that can pop up if it doesn't. Usermin should probably direct to whatever domain was in your URL bar for the Usermin login page, so that might be a minor bug-like in the password recovery module, too.
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I've hunted around and can't figure out how to change the Password Recovery button to link to https://www.domain.com:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery instead of server.domain.com
I expect it is something really simple but I can't seem to locate why it is using server.domain.com (system hostname) instead of www.domain.com and why www.domain.com goes to a different page than domain.com
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Thanks for the info Joe.
I just checked a Webmin password Recovery link and the recovery button works fine and directs to https://www.domain.com:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery The page is a Virtualmin Password recovery page.
I assume this is not the page that would be used for Usermin password Recovery as it does not look like something that regular users would feel comfortable with and requests a Virtualmin administration login or Virtualmin Domian Name. So I assume that the page I am looking at is only for administrators.
I have added DNS records for the server's FQDN and waited for it to resolve.
It now all appears to be working as expected. It is displaying a password recovery page for Usermin Password recovery.
The full link is: https://ServerHostName:Webminport/virtualmin-password-recovery/usermin.cgi
This should then be the same for all virtualhosts on the server. Thanks for letting me know that the FQDN needed to be set up in my DNS.
Thanks again for you help. Kim
PS. Now the Password Recovery form just has to be reworked to look more like the login form.
To follow up on this, I'm pretty sure it was just an older version of the module getting installed. I've re-added the new version to the Debian/Ubuntu repos (where it got removed from during a repo cleanup a few weeks ago). Anyone on Debian/Ubuntu who was having this problem, see if you can upgrade to 1.7 of the webmin-virtualmin-password-recovery module and see if it resolves it (old versions didn't support Usermin).
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E: Unable to locate package webmin-virtualmin-password-recovery
What am I doing wrong? I tried apt-get install webmin-virtualmin-password-recovery
Do you have the virtualmin-universal repository enabled?
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How do I check that? I did just a standard installation. And I understood that that should be enough.