While Webmin is a decent tool, but you should very carefully consider things before making it available to the general public via an External connection to the net. I believe most of the security problems have been resolved, but if someone happens to guess your password, they can do whatever they want to your server/network. Granted, if they can get past your authentication you probably have bigger problems, but it doesn't make sense to give an attacker a nice pretty interface to wreak havoc with.
Webmin is a great tool, best used internally. On the other hand, if you can SSH into the network, and then run webmin, that would be a little more secure. Kin, I think the tool you're after is SSH by itself. VNC is nice, but not necessary, unless you're managing your linux box from an MS workstation. Even then, PuTTy allows a command line connection and can be configured to be a Tunnel (though I have never done this myself). If you are trying to manage a Linux box with a GUI, from another Linux box with a GUI, then you can still use SSH - like so: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /path/to/executable This will run the executable on the remote box, but provide the interface on the local box. HTH (Sorry Niels - but I've just seen toooo many resources that say don't allow external access to webmin. But the last time I looked was over a year ago, so things may have changed since then) Shawn On Wednesday 09 February 2005 14:21, Niels Voll wrote: > if you are looking for something fancier than command line access, and > don't want to install anything on the remotely connecting machine, but > just use a browser, you can look into Webmin(http://www.webmin.com/). > It's basically server administration via web browser. > > ...Niels _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
