The webshell client, by default, will look in /etc/security/adsm for the
adsmweb.ws and adsmpswd.ws files. By specifying the directory where these files
are located as I've done above, the webshell should work. So try starting the
webshell with this command:

          webshell 2121 /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/wsstuff

By the way, make sure that the user ID you use in the mkwspswd command matches
that of a real AIX user ID.

The instructions for the webshell client are in
/usr/lpp/adsm/bin/wsstuff/wsreadme.html.

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support

 ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
 02-11-98 12:26 AM
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Subject: ADSM V3 Webshell on AIX

I am trying to start the webshell on the AIX client and have not been able to
find any documentation on how to do it. I tried to follow the basic steps that
are provided with the Windows client but have not been successful.

From ROOT

1. cd /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/wsstuff
2. adsmpswd p password /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/wsstuff
3. mkwspswd p username password a /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/wsstuff
4. webshell
I then see the following:
Listening on port: 2121
URL is: http://ADSMSRV1:2121/webshell

When I enter this URL from my browser I do get a screen asking for user name and
password but it results in "authorization failed". The following error is also
displayed on root where webshell is running:

Error 2 opening password file

I tried changing the permissions on the files generated by adsmpswd and mkwpswd
to allow rwx by all but I still get the same result.

Instead of entering webshell I have also tried webstart with the same results:
# webstart
starting webshell from /usr/bin
Listening on port: 2121
URL is: http://ADSMSRV1:2121/webshell
Error 2 opening password file

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Larry Robertson
larry_robertson AT compuware DOT com