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