Re: Java & OpenBSD

["Mike Bowie" <mbowie@buzmo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Goren" <ben@trumpetpower.com>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Java & OpenBSD


> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:12:58PM +1000, Guy Daniel wrote:
>
> > Not that  it's hard  or anything,  but I want  to "dumb  down" a
> > couple of  configuration aspects  of OpenBSD, preferably  with a
> > web browser interface. I was thinking  much along the same lines
> > as the SAMBA swat utility.
>
> Check  out  /usr/ports/sysutils/webmin. Personally,  it  makes  me
> shudder, but  lots of people seem  to like it--and it  sounds like
> exactly what you're looking for.
>
> b&
>
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> Ben Goren
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I've been providing webmin systems to a number of my clients for quite some
time now... it provides a very simple and configurable web interface to
common administation requirements.  Have a look at http://www.webmin.com

The system is quite good IMHO, easy to administer and to lock down from a
user perspective.

Obviously, anything that gives root or similar access via the web is a
generally bad idea, but it is the lesser of two evils when it comes to
teaching end users how to administer a cli based system in what is
apparently a 'windows' world.  (No capital letter needed there.)

If you can filter access to the system based on IP, do so.  Preferably via
pf or ipf as the perl powered web server which powers Webmin may be (at some
stage if not now) subject to any number of vulnerablilities.

Try it anyway, if you don't like it, make your own or just suck it up and
teach / learn command line syntax.  :)

Best of luck,

Mike.

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