Topic: mysql

[Luk Vermeylen]

I've installed the package phpmysqladmin from the contribs, and now i can't connect anymore to the e-smith-manager page. I get a acces denied.
What can I do about it?
I've removed already this package, but then it stays the same
I also can't connect to the mysql server from the command line. He rejects the passwords i use.

[bobocaca]

For the access denied to the e-smith-manager, you can try rebuild the admin's httpd.conf file.
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.conf
Then restart the admin httpd
/etc/init.d/httpd-admin retstart


For mysql you can also get the root password from /root/.my.cnf

For better control, you can try webmin
www.webmin.com

[Adam Scott]

Last reply suggests using Webmin. Excellent product (by the way) on other Linux installations - especially easy to configure/administer sendmail for instance - but e-smith specifically warn against using it. Any comments from others? Is there really some added security risk from installing Webmin?

[Dean Mumby]

I tried webmin as I used to use with my rh 7 but on e-smith it exited with an error unable to identify os ?
Any ideas?
Dean

[Dan Brown]

Adam Scott wrote:
>
> Last reply suggests using Webmin. Excellent product (by the
> way) on other Linux installations - especially easy to
> configure/administer sendmail for instance - but e-smith
> specifically warn against using it. Any comments from others?

    It's not so much a security risk as the probability of hosing things.  e-smith has its own way of storing settings, which webmin doesn't recognize.  At best, any changes you make using webmin will be overwritten the next time you make changes with the e-smith panel; at worst, it will hose settings in a way that e-smith can't fix.

[Adam Scott]

Thanks for that - seems a non starter. Shame since Webmin is so well developed now ...

[bobocaca]

You need to change some option to force webmin to install, you can get the information from webmin documentation.

Although the system will restore the setting after using e-smith-manager, but by using webmin user will be able to know what changes have make to the system setting file (/etc/* )and will be able to add the changes into the template, isn't better.