Monday, January 26, 2009

webmin installation in debian

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.


download webmin from this site
http://www.webmin.com/download.html
install it
#dpkg -i webmin_1.441_all.deb
You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://localhost:10000/

Webmin User Password Change

If you want to change root password in webmin use this included Perl script:

sudo /usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root

If you want to install any standard modules you can download from
http://www.webmin.com/standard.html
If you want to install third party modules you can download from
http://www.webmin.com/third.html

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