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On Wednesday 17 December 2008, 23:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> But back onto your original question. Webmin is a problem that cannot |
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> be fixed. It needs to have root priviledges, the root password needs |
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> to go over the wire to the webmin http server, |
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True, although all the webmin installations I've seen run on https. |
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> and to the best of my knowledge is not subject to routine security |
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> scrutiny. I would not trust it further than I can throw it, and that's |
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> not very far. |
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> So, someone who insists on using it deserves to have their machines |
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> pwned, lose their data, be blacklisted for being a zombie bot and have |
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> their kittens eaten. Rather than appease your friend's reluctance to |
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> use anything other than a GUI, you should batter some sense into his |
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> skull. Tell him I say it is highly unlikely that he knows more about |
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> how to do this job than the 1000s of Unix admins who have been doing |
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> it for almost 40 years. He really, really, wants ssh. |
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Agreed. |
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(and, btw, you can just use ssh port forwarding and run webmin over that |
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without exposing webmin directly on the Internet, if you really want it) |
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