Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> > > >> I know I had webmin installed for a long time but rarely used it. I >> just couldn't remember if I used it for setting up printing from windoze >> or not. >> > > A friend is running webmin on a server and it makes setting up some services > (like CUPS) easier to visualise/understand. However, the login into webmin > is set up with the root passwd. This on an Internet facing port is making me > nervous, but he is sooo attached to GUI solutions I cannot convince him that > ssh is all he needs. Is there a way to only allow logins as a plain user and > then elevate privileges to root (just like you would su on the CLI > sort-of-thing)? >
I haven't read the other replies but here is my thinking. Start the webmin service, change/setup what ever needs doing then shut down webmin. That was how I did it. That way it is only up for a few minutes and I never had to have webmin running to keep the other services working. Your mileage may vary tho. Dale :-) :-)
