RE: [cobalt-users] Usermin and Webmin

[Grant Stern <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 09:56 PM, 
cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Message: 1
> From: "Michael Aronoff" <ma@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Usermin and Webmin
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:48:53 -0700
> Organization: CIIC, Inc.
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Mike wrote:
> > hi, has anyone had any experience with webmin and usermin on cobalt
> raq, i
> > have them installed on rpm, but i would like to know how safe it is to
> use?
>
>
> OK, I have never done one of these before but I feel compelled. :)
>
> PLEASE SEARCH THE ARCHIVE FIRST!!
>
> There has been a large and ongoing thread on this very subject with 
> many
> people posting detailed answers to this very question.

i have webmin running on a raq2.  it works like a champ.  very useful 
for things like procmail.  if you're planning on using it as your only 
gui, its not as customized for the raq as say, the built in gui.

you can use them side by side, so long as you resist the temptation to 
use it's CPAN front end to zorch your raq gui, and so long as you 
understand this, changing your server settings with webmin will mess 
your gui way up.  it will overwrite any changes it doesn't know about.

as for usermin.  i don't have anyone around that should have usermin 
type access.  i think the raq's customer gui is superior in that its 
far more simple, and less powerful.  frankly, i don't want my customers 
finding out about procmail, let alone clogging my box with their own 
spam blocking lists, or changing other important settings.  giving them 
cron access just sounds like a good way to have my machine hacked.

in summary, webmin good, usermin bad.
grant