Solved Webmin

[balanga]

I have installed webmin and it is enabled and running.

What do I need to do to login?

When attempting to connect to https://192.168.1.1:1000/ I get

This site can’t be reached​

Nmap shows:

Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-11-14 15:06 UTC 2 16:28│
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.1
Host is up (0.00042s latency).
Not shown: 995 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT      STATE SERVICE
22/tcp    open  ssh              
111/tcp   open  rpcbind       
625/tcp   open  apple-xsrvr-admin
2049/tcp  open  nfs                       
10000/tcp open  snet-sensor-mgmt
MAC Address: 00:23:24:64:BF:CD (G-PRO Computer)

What have I overlooked?

 

[eternal_noob]

Are you sure you have an SSL certificate installed for your local webserver? You could try http instead of https.

 

[cracauer@]

Try telnet to port 1000 to get a better error message.

 

[T-Daemon]

When attempting to connect to https://192.168.1.1:1000/ I get

Is the port number :1000 a typo in your post or the real value. By default, Webmin listens on port 10000, unless configured otherwise.

https://webmin.com/docs/modules/webmin-configuration/#ports-and-addresses .

 

[balanga]

Are you sure you have an SSL certificate installed for your local webserver? You could try http instead of https.

http://192.168.1.1:10000/

Note http and port 10000 gets me to the login screen

Thanks to all for the help.

 

[balanga]

One more thing, is there shell script to set up the config?

I thought there was but haven't managed to locate it yet.

I wanted to change the userid and password that webmin uses with creating a new user.

 

[SirDice]

I thought there was but haven't managed to locate it yet.

pkg info -D webmin

 

[balanga]

root@M73:~ # /usr/local/lib/webmin/setup.sh
****************************************************************************
Welcome to the Webmin setup script, version 2.520
****************************************************************************
Webmin is a web-based interface that allows Unix-like operating
systems and common Unix services to be easily administered.

Installing Webmin in /usr/local/lib/webmin

****************************************************************************
Webmin uses separate directories for configuration files and log files.
Unless you want to run multiple versions of Webmin at the same time
you can just accept the defaults.

Config file directory [/usr/local/etc/webmin]: /usr/local/etc/webmin
.. found

Creating start and stop scripts ..
.. done

Updating config files ..
.. done

Changing ownership and permissions ..
.. done

Running postinstall scripts ..
.. done

It doesn't seem to want any input.

 

[SirDice]

As far as I understood the pkg-message, you only run that script before the first time you start the service. Once this initial setup has been done, and you started the service, you should be able to change it from within webmin itself.

 

[vienuolis]

Webmin is a WebUI, where users configuration located at

https://yourdomain:10000/acl/?xnavigation=1

(Webmin panel: Webmin Users).

 

[balanga]

As far as I understood the pkg-message, you only run that script before the first time you start the service. Once this initial setup has been done, and you started the service, you should be able to change it from within webmin itself.

I guess I'd better delete the pkg and associated files and start from scratch.

(some time later)

After reinstalling and running the startup script it works the way I want. Unfortunately I never notice the message shown during installation, but thanks to SirDice for making me aware of the
pkg info -D option.

 

[SirDice]

Sometimes those messages scroll past really quickly when you install a bunch of stuff, so can be easy to miss. One really great option is to use pkg info -aD which will print every pkg-message of the packages you have installed.