Hack #19. Remote Administration with Webmin
Webmin provides secure access to logfiles, system statistics, and many common administration tasks, all from your favorite web browser.
Administering a system can be a tough job. With user accounts to create, services to configure, logs to check, and all the other duties system administrators face, it can become quite a load. Thankfully, there's some software out there that can help make life easier for the weary sysadmin. One of these pieces of software is called Webmin. Webmin allows you to control a large portion of the functionality of your server from an easy-to-use web interface. Most major services are covered, including Apache, BIND, SSH, LDAP, Samba, WU-FTP, Sendmail, MySQL, and many others.
Figure 2-23. A Windows Terminal server connection in nxclient
Installation
Installation of Webmin couldn't be easier. If you're running an RPM-based distribution such as SUSE or Fedora Core, simply grab the latest version from the Webmin home page at http://www.webmin.com. Install Webmin with the following command, where version-number is the version that you downloaded:
#rpm –install Webmin-version-number.rpm
If you're using a non-RPM-based distribution such as Debian or Slackware, you can install from source. Simply download the latest tarball from http://www.webmin.com and unpack it to your system as usual. Navigate into the newly created Webmin ...
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