[CLUE-Tech] Webmin Software

[Brandon N]

--- Dave Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:
> Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> > Anyone used this?
> >
> > KC
> >
> > http://www.webmin.com/
I've used it for quite a while now.  It runs as a separate perl-based
server and can be SSL if you have the right modules installed.  It's
distribution aware so it knows which config files to mess with, no
worrying about doing something manual and getting them out of sync. 
You can set it up to use standard unix passwords.  There are quite a
few third party modules available, although I haven't found a good one
for iptables yet.  I believe there was a review of it in one of the
recent linux Journals.

Brandon


> Heard of it.  Like any tool that makes system configuration more
> accessible from the network, you have to be careful to be secure. 
> Don't
> know how easy they make it to be secure - it looks like they add a
> layer
> of authentication on top of the usual Unix users.  I don't consider
> that
> a good thing (adding complexity makes it easier to mess up), but it
> may
> not be bad, either.
> 
> If you read the O'Reilly samba book, it covers config by hand and
> with a
> RH tool.  The RH tool doesn't provide all the options available
> though.
> So webmin may not allow you to do everything that you want to (that
> seems to be the case, at least as far as adding samba users).
> 
> But, I'm sure it's good in some environments.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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