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How to change Webmin root password if i can’t login.

Hi,

Today i am facing very strange issue,i just forgot the admin username of Webmin ,i can Access the SSH with the root username & password but can’t login with the same details.

Then i found the solution :- Webmin distribution is a program called changepass.pl to solve erecisely this problem. Assuming you have installed Webmin in /usr/libexec/webmin, you could change the password of the admin user to foo by running the following command through SSH with root access:-

/usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin admin foo

I have solve this problem by the following way :-

[root@unixsurgeon /]# /usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin adminĀ  p-root
The Webmin user admin does not exist
The users on your system are: unixsurgeon
[root@unixsurgeon /]# passwd unixsurgeon
passwd: Unknown user name ‘unixsurgeon’
[root@unixsurgeon /]# /usr/libexec/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin unixsurgeon p-root
Updated password of Webmin user unixsurgeon

Enjoy Linux…!!!

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Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion

Install Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion

Today i finally decided to go ahead with installing subversion, after a bit of reading i opened a ssh session and input :

[root@unixsurgeon.com ~]# yum install subversion

I got an surprise error :-

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion

After a long try i managed to find a solution and i thought to post it here, so that other will find it faster.

First we need to download the perl(URI) with version greater than 1.17 using the following command.

[root@unixsurgeon.com ~]# wget http://yum.trixbox.org/centos/5/RPMS/perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm

Then to install the perl package :-

[root@unixsurgeon.com ~]# rpm -i perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm

That is it, you can now install the subversion once again.

In Capnel :-

Problem solved by using the following way:

1. Removed perl* part from the yum repository(/etc/yum.conf)
2. yum install subversion
3. Add perl* back to the yum.conf file

Enjoy Linux…!!!! :)

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