Confused By The Instructions

[Steve Smith]

Ivan,

Thanks, that worked. I found it at /home/argus/argus-3.7/contrib/mkpasswd.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Ivan <happisnappy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> in the   argus user's homedir, in the 'bin' subdirectory, there is the
> tool called  'makepassword'
>
> -you need to know your password first
> -then generate the encrypted version   (eg..  $makepasswd  zoidberg211 )
> -then paste the encrypted version in the users file
>
> --- On Thu, 5/23/13, Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Confused By The Instructions
> To: "Discussion about Argus" <arguslist at tcp4me.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013, 2:54 PM
>
> No problem, but may I ask another question? The users file requires an
> encryted password for a user.  I don't understand how to encrypt the
> password.
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Ivan <happisnappy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > sorry,
> >
> > It was late nite and I retired to sleep after sending that message.
> >
> > glad it got fixed.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > --- On Thu, 5/23/13, Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Confused By The Instructions
> > To: "Discussion about Argus" <arguslist at tcp4me.com>
> > Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013, 12:22 PM
> >
> > Hey thanks, I got it. As usual it was my error - The CGI stuff wasn't
> > installed.
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Roberto Schuster <
> > robertoaschuster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The solution (for me) was use the path http://localhost/arguscgi or
> > > http://localhost/arguscgi.pl in the browser.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2013/5/23 Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > Hi Ivan,
> > > >
> > > > So do I need to configure apache2.conf to look at usr/local/cgi-bin
> > > instead
> > > > of /var/www ?
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Ivan <happisnappy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > that means to use hit your argus instance homepage
> > > > >
> > > > > the cgi-componenet would have probably been set up in your apache
> > > > instance
> > > > >
> > > > > --- On Wed, 5/22/13, Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > From: Steve Smith <ssmith94132 at gmail.com>
> > > > > Subject: Confused By The Instructions
> > > > > To: arguslist at tcp4me.com
> > > > > Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 8:18 PM
> > > > >
> > > > > I seem to have Argus running, the directory looks like this:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > total 60
> > > > > -rw-rw-r--  1 www-data argus    12288 May 22 20:38 auth
> > > > > -rw-rw-r--  1 argus    argus     2979 May 22 19:33 config
> > > > > srwxrwxrwx  1 argus    argus        0 May 23 04:02 control
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x  2 argus    argus     4096 May 22 06:21 gcache
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x 28 argus    argus     4096 May 23 02:50 gdata
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x 28 root     argus     4096 May 23 02:50 html
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x  2 argus    argus     4096 May 22 06:21 locale
> > > > > -rw-rw-r--  1 argus    www-data  8483 May 23 04:13 log
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x  2 argus    argus     4096 May 23 02:58 notify
> > > > > -rw-rw-rw-  1 argus    argus        5 May 23 02:58 notno
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x  2 argus    argus     4096 May 22 06:21 perl
> > > > > drwxrwxr-x 28 argus    argus     4096 May 23 02:50 stats
> > > > > -rw-rw-r--  1 argus    argus      144 May 23 02:44 users
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What I don't understand are the instructions: "load the argus cgi
> > > > interface
> > > > > in your web browser, and verify that everything is configured
> > > correctly."
> > > > > Using what path?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
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