Re: [webmin-l] How to create interactive dialogue in Custom Commands?

On 11/02/17 23:46, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> Currently, there is no way to do this, sorry. The custom command is
> just run with whatever input is gathered from the parameters, and the
> output is displayed. 
>
> True interactivity would be much more complex, as it requires running
> an interactive shell in the browse

Jamie, thanks for clarifying that.  I was jumping through hoops to try
to setup Custom Commands to be interactive.

Here is what I ended up with.
I have installed webmin on a remote VM instance of Ubuntu 16.04 on
Google Cloud Platform.
I have access to VM via SSH session.

Whiptail was already installed by default on the remote Ubuntu 16.04 server.

Using Webmin File Manager I created a sub-folder for scripts.

In there I created a test bash script .. whiptail_example.sh

Using File Manager I changed ownership of script to <user>:<user> and
made it executable.

Then via SSH console I can now run that script in VM to get the shell
interactivity I want.

......
/
//An added note./

Before taking the above route I tried running Others > Text Login to see
if I could run whiptail script

This Text Login shell prompts for login: and Password:

Because a Google Cloud VM instance doesn't have a default sudo password
I created one via SSH session using

sudo passwd

Then I switched back to Text Login and all login attempts were rejected.

Login incorrect.

I don't know how to get in via Text Login.
Why can I still access the VM via SSH session but not Text Login?

dl

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