What is Webmin?
Webmin is an excellent web-based interface to your *nix based machines(www.webmin.com). There are no webmin packages in the latest release "Dapper". This is how I installed webmin on my Dapper server...
Edit Jul 15 2006: as of July 2006 webmin.com has a testing deb for the full webmin package. You can use this, but you will have to enable the root user. Following the instructions below will avoid enabling the root account.
1. Install SSH
Code:
sudo apt-get install ssh
2. Enable the universe and multiverse repositories in the /etc/apt/sources.list (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesCliHowto)
3. To make this easier use a ssh client like Putty(Win32) or a Term on another machine that has a GUI and copy/paste these commands or you can just re-type them...
Below is the source I just happened to use. If it is not working go to: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w...n-1.350.tar.gz and find a working mirror.
Where to install Webmin?
At this point you should note that the directory that you are currently in will be the directory that webmin gets installed into. I don't mind it being in /home/MyAdminAccount/webmin, but if you want it somewhere else now is the time to change to that directory.
Doing something like this would put your installation in /opt/webmin and then Now Download the Webmin archive...
Code:
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.350.tar.gz
Code:
gzip -cd webmin-1.350.tar.gz | tar xvf -
Code:
sudo apt-get install libauthen-pam-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libpam-runtime openssl perl perl-modules
Basically just hit enter and choose SSL and the auto start the service at boot
Web server port (default 10000): (Feel Free to change this)
Login name (default admin):
Login password: AReallyGoodONE
Password again: AReallyGoodONE
Use SSL (y/n): y
Start Webmin at boot time (y/n): y
Now you can login with the user/password that you set at the https://IpAddressOfYourMachine:10000
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