Is usermin still supported on macOS?

[rcfa]

There's a config-macos file in the .../usermin-2.010 folder from which setup.sh is run.

However, running ./setup.sh results in the following error message:

./setup.sh: line 330: /67058.os: No such file or directory

Running macOS 15.2

[jcameron]

It should still work fine on MacOS.

Can you post the full output from setup.sh before that error, so we can see where it fails?

[rcfa]

Sure, no problem, but there’s not much there:

# ./setup.sh /usr/local/usermin
****************************************************************************
          Welcome to the Usermin setup script, version 2.102
****************************************************************************
Usermin is a web-based interface that allows Unix-like operating
systems and common Unix services to be easily administered.

Installing Usermin from /tmp/usermin-2.102 to /usr/local/usermin

****************************************************************************
Usermin uses separate directories for configuration files and log files.
Unless you want to run multiple versions of Usermin at the same time
you can just accept the defaults.

Config file directory [/etc/usermin]: 
Log file directory [/var/usermin]: /var/log/usermin

****************************************************************************
Usermin is written entirely in Perl. Please enter the full path to the
Perl 5 interpreter on your system.

Full path to perl (default /usr/bin/perl): 

Testing Perl ..
.. done

****************************************************************************
./setup.sh: line 330: /44602.os: No such file or directory

[jcameron]

So I looked at this, and it seems like Usermin never worked on MacOS due to a bug in setup.sh that's always existed!

The work-around is to run :

export tempdir=/tmp/.webmin
./setup.sh /usr/local/usermin

[rcfa]

Yup, that did it... Thanks!

Does that make me officially the first and only user of usermin on macOS? 🤣

[rcfa]

But why not .usermin as temp dir?
Just in the unlikely case someone installs webmin and usermin simulator, wouldn't they possibly stomp on each other? 🤔

[jcameron]

No, they can share the same temp dir.