Topic: URGENT: Server Manager is Forbidden

[Mark Baker]

I left my server (5.12) two days ago and it was running.  Today I cannot get into the Server Manager.  I am not being prompted for authentication and I am getting a 403 http error.

I REALLY need to add some e-mail users, is there a way I can do this while server manager is broken?  If not... what should I do?

Thanks in advance for your help.
- MB

[Baronne]

are there any other devices on the network that might be serving DHCP?
try set your PC WINS server to the SME server.
have your DNS settings changed?

I seem to remember having a similar problem and it was down to DHCP and DNS....

cheers

Baronne

[guestHH]

Hi,

enter: 'service httpd-admin restart' on the console and try again to access the manager.

Regards,
guestHH

[J. Olman]

You did log in as "admin" and not "root" right?  It is obvious, but many people have made the mistake.

Also, make sure that you access the manager from the local network.

[Mark Baker]

This does not seem to be the issue in my particular case

[Mark Baker]

I restarted the service, but that did not help either.  I really need to add e-mail accounts....

- Mark Baker

[Damien Curtain]

Mark Baker wrote:
>
> I left my server (5.12) two days ago and it was running.
> Today I cannot get into the Server Manager.  I am not being
> prompted for authentication and I am getting a 403 http error.
>
> I REALLY need to add some e-mail users, is there a way I can
> do this while server manager is broken?  If not... what
> should I do?

Some diagnostic work is need 1st.

Can you send the sections of /var/log/messages that correspond to running these commands...

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.conf
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf
/etc/init.d/httpd-admin restart

thats a start to knock off what it might not be thats going wrong.
--
 Damien

[Mark Baker]

None of those commands created entries in the messages file.

The problem seems to be that Server Manager is not asking for the password anymoreDamien Curtain wrote:
>
> Mark Baker wrote:
> >
> > I left my server (5.12) two days ago and it was running.
> > Today I cannot get into the Server Manager.  I am not being
> > prompted for authentication and I am getting a 403 http
> error.
> >
> > I REALLY need to add some e-mail users, is there a way I can
> > do this while server manager is broken?  If not... what
> > should I do?
>
> Some diagnostic work is need 1st.
>
> Can you send the sections of /var/log/messages that
> correspond to running these commands...
>
> /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.conf
> /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf
> /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf
> /etc/init.d/httpd-admin restart
>
> thats a start to knock off what it might not be thats going
> wrong.
> --
>  Damien