I decided to go with consensus of opinion and try out Webmin.
At 09:03 09/01/02 -0800, Darren Paxton wrote: >I'm running webmin on my home machine quite happily with OpenSSH on the connection, only thing that bugs me is having to accept the certificate every time, but compared to passing my root password over the network unencrypted...its a sacrifice im' willing to make. ...with SSL. Thanks to all who responded to my query. The downside with webmin is an excess of functionality - I really just wanted it for user account admin and a few other bits and bobs unfortunately, even with a restricted webmin user account finding the right parts of the system is a little tricky. Certainly not what I want to let the staff here run riot with (at the moment they are using some shell scripts I wrote, and while they do have root shell access, they wouldn't know how to access fdisk / ifconfig / shutdown - unfortunately having an icon on your screen makes it all too easy to mess up the system big time). I think I'll keep it on the system for my own use though. Interesting that you can devolve management functions.....mmmm. Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
