Webmin? Good, Bad, Ugly?

[Brian Fahrlander]

Adam McGreggor wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:53:18PM -0800, Damien Hull wrote:
>> Is Webmin good, bad or just damn ugly?
> 
> I think the UI's hideous, and the app itself a bit hit-and-miss.

    Have you seen it lately?  It's been re-vamped.  The menu is now on 
the side, and I believe it's using CSS to reconfig, but that's just a guess.

    I'm with you on the 'you ought to learn it' tack; as much as a Linux 
maven that I am though, I've seen a couple of cases where it's helpful 
to be the other way.

    Two of my clients relies on me for the 'real stuff' of installing 
programs and other non-trivial things, but a Windows guy does the 
day-to-day, which includes little things...things like editing 
/etc/aliases and being the admin over mailman (from the web) for 
subscribing/unsubscribing and other related details.  Personally, I'd 
love everyone to throw away the WickedWare and just start living clean, 
but there's a push to infect ActiveDirectory everywhere under the sun, 
keeping many small shops from changing...and keeping the $100,000 'sword 
of Damocles' hanging over their head via the BSA.

     Webmin lets me create a small set of commands that are reachable to 
these guys so they don't accidentally go wandering off into things that 
could cause trouble, and that's helpful.  I just wish it were more secure.


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