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ostendo
Posted on # October 1, 2010, 11:12 am
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Hi,

I just installed Softaculous for the first time on my DirectAdmin server. I changed the default admin username in DirectAdmin from "admin" to "ostendo", for security purposes of course.
As many other DA-plugins, though, Softaculous also does not take into account the possibility that the default "admin" user does not exist.
This should be checked during install, by reading /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/admin.list and checking whether the "admin" user exists. If not, another user should be used.
Besides this bug, at the end of the installation process, I got the following error:

chown: `admin:admin': invalid user
chown: `admin:admin': invalid user

Is this a problem? What to do? Can users use it now or will it go wrong in every possible way (the drama..)

So. A bug report and a support question. I hope someone can answer me quickly.

Thanks!

Bart

-- Edit: I can not save any settings, so it's really a bug. When I save settings in the admin panel, go to another section and then return to the settings-page, the saved settings are discarded.


Edited by ostendo : October 1, 2010, 11:18 am
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Softaculous not taking admin username into account
alons
Posted on # October 6, 2010, 6:39 am | Post: 1
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Hi,

Softaculous is built assuming that the Admin panel will be accessed as the admin itself.
But the enduser side will not be affected.
There will be a problem with the Admin Panel.

Regards,
Alons

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Softaculous not taking admin username into account
ostendo
Posted on # October 6, 2010, 6:47 am | Post: 2
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Hi,

I think you don't understand my point really. My "admin" user doesn't exist. I've only got one user with admin rights, that is the user "ostendo". Therefore, Scriptaculous is never installed correctly, I believe..

Bart
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alons
Posted on # October 6, 2010, 5:57 pm | Post: 3
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Sir, you need to have the "admin" username as an admin.
The program is designed to CHOWN as per the admin user only.

Regards,
Alons

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Softaculous not taking admin username into account
ostendo
Posted on # October 6, 2010, 6:05 pm | Post: 4
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Quote From : alons October 6, 2010, 5:57 pm
Hi,

Sir, you need to have the "admin" username as an admin.
The program is designed to CHOWN as per the admin user only.

Regards,
Alons


Hi Alons,

I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous.  I don't have an admin user named "admin". I only have one administrator in my DirectAdmin, and it's called "ostendo". If you say you support DirectAdmin, you should also support this. It is a security consideration to disable and delete the default admin username "admin", just as you say, because almost everybody uses that as the admin username. That means you only have to guess the password then. Now you also have to guess the username.

Anyway, all these security things don't matter, if you REALLY support DirectAdmin, you should REALLY support this issue and take care of it. It is never said that the administrator user of DirectAdmin MUST be called "admin", so it's not safe for Softaculous to just "assume" that.
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Softaculous not taking admin username into account
alons
Posted on # October 11, 2010, 4:37 am | Post: 5
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Hi,

We will make an update to softaculous to support this as well.
I will try to push it up in 3.1

Regards,
Alons

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