Swat no longer installable!

[zer0halo]

Thanks, Dave. That solved my webmin problem.

Still no swat though :-(


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:10:39 -0500, dave <dave at rodrig.com> wrote:
> I don't have much to offer on your swat problem, but I think I can help
> you log into webmin.
> 
> Check what root's password has been set to in
> /etc/webmin/miniserv.users.... if you set root's password after
> installing webmin, it may still be set to 'root:*', which is what mine
> looked like.
> 
> At installation, webmin copies root's password from /etc/shadow to
> /etc/webmin/miniserv.users. I simply copied the second field from my
> user's /etc/shadow entry (the hashed password) to root's miniserv.users
> entry and now I can log into webmin.
> 
> good luck
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> zer0halo wrote:
> > After doing the latest upgrade on Warty (which updated over 100
> > packages from warty-security ending with "ubuntu6.2", including
> > Samba), SWAT is now broken. I was forced to remove it in order to
> > perform the upgrade.
> >
> > When I tried reinstalling it, I got:
> >
> >  swat: Depends: samba (= 3.0.7-1ubuntu6) but 3.0.7-1ubuntu6.2 is to be installed
> >
> > Does anyone know of a workaround? Will a updated version of Swat be
> > released in the Warty universe that will work with Samba
> > 3.0.7.-1ubuntu6.2?
> >
> > If there's no getting Swat back, is there anything else with similar
> > functionality? I know that webmin has a samba component, but I haven't
> > been able to get webmin to work. When I try to log in
> > (https://localhost:10000), I'm prompted for user name and password.
> > Whether I type my user name/password or the root user name/password,
> > either way I get an authentication error.I do have a root password set
> > (sudo passwd root), so that's not the problem.Swat was working prior
> > to the above uninstall, so it's not like the problem with webmin is
> > apache. I've tried logging in as root and then running webmin and the
> > same problem. I'd really like to get Swat back because that worked
> > nicely!
> >
> > I also looked online for the latest deb package of Swat and tried
> > installing it and ran into the same dependency problem.
> >
> 
> 


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