I’ve updated webmin, but now, it refuse to restart :
● webmin.service - LSB: web-based administration interface for Unix systems Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/webmin; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-07-29 09:30:29 CEST; 12s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 1485 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/webmin start (code=exited, status=2) Jul 29 09:30:26 vps513135 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: web-based administration interface for Unix systems... Jul 29 09:30:27 vps513135 perl[1486]: pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root Jul 29 09:30:29 vps513135 systemd[1]: webmin.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2 Jul 29 09:30:29 vps513135 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: web-based administration interface for Unix systems. Jul 29 09:30:29 vps513135 systemd[1]: webmin.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 29 09:30:29 vps513135 systemd[1]: webmin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Can someone explain me what does pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure
mean ?
some more infos :
root@vps513135:~# uname -a Linux vps513135 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-1 (2018-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thank you 🙂
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SOLUTION
I tried to start like this
root@vps513135:~# /etc/webmin/start Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin Failed to open SSL key /home/sowdowdow/domains/sow.sowdowdow.fr/ssl.key at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 4414.
The output is a bit more clear, and finally found a solution here.
Comment out the lines related to the borked server in /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf.
#ipcert_sow.sowdowdow.fr,*.sow.sowdowdow.fr=/home/sowdowdow/domains/sow.sowdowdow.fr/ssl.cert #ipkey_sow.sowdowdow.fr,*.sow.sowdowdow.fr=/home/sowdowdow/domains/sow.sowdowdow.fr/ssl.key