Topic: Cannot Access Server manager or phpmyadmin

[AaronW]

I'm an idiot!! 

Some how last week while trying to get a remote reset script to work with PHP I have buggered up the admin accounts access to Server-Manager and PHPMyAdmin!

I can still use the admin account through the shell and have reset both the root and admin password using passwd however I still get access denied when loggin into server-manager

as a work around for PHPMyAdmin I have installed the multi user version but it has not solved my SM issue.

I have back tracked my setting changes, which was mostly to change the sudo settings to enable the www account to execute a script as root, however it has not helped!

I may have missed something or it may be unrelated to my fiddling last week!

Please help! I'm near out of ideas and a rebuild seems a little drastic at this stage!


Aaron 

[cactus]

You do not give us any clues to work on. You should try and describe more specific what you try. Also have a look in the /var/log/httpd/admin_error_log file, perhaps a clue might be in there.

[CharlieBrady]

I have back tracked my setting changes, which was mostly to change the sudo settings to enable the www account to execute a script as root, ...

That's quite a bad idea.

[Arffeh]

That's quite a bad idea.

Then what would be a more secure way of allowing the www account to execute a script that requires higher permissions?

Also, in /var/log/httpd/admin_error_log :

[Thu Jun 17 19:49:11 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not open pipe to pwauth: Permission denied at /etc/e-smith/web/common/cgi-bin/login line 59., referer: https://server/server-common/cgi-bin/login

[Arffeh]

So at this point I'm wondering what permissions are needed to be in place so that it can have the appropriate access.

Does anyone know?

[AaronW]

  Sorted it out, as I suspected it was LOOSER ERROR!!

Some how I changed the Group file /etc/group and the value for www to : www:x:10:admin when it should have been www:x:102:admin.

All good now!