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alouch47
Guide
Sep 16, 2010

PHP VirtualBox Manager (Help)

Hi all. "WhoCares?" if you're around, maybe you can help me with this. I've installed you addon and once made it works, but by the time VB wasn't working. (VB installed trough APT) Now that my...
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sphardy1
Apprentice
Sep 16, 2010
alouch47 wrote:
If the device is in a LAN with a firewall and nothing is forwarded to the box, there is no particular risk ?

Provided you trust all users on the local LAN.

Quick fix is to create the file "/frontview/ui/resource/html/phpvboxmgr/.htaccess" with the following contents to force an admin user login to get to the config page:

require user admin

<IfModule authnz_external_module>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthBasicProvider external
  AuthExternal pwauth
</IfModule>

<IfModule !authnz_external_module>
  LoadModule authnz_external_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authnz_external.so
  LoadModule auth_sys_group_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_sys_group.so
  AddExternalAuth pwauth /usr/bin/pwauth
  SetExternalAuthMethod pwauth environment
</IfModule>
              
AuthName "PHPVboxMgr"

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