Webmin? Good, Bad, Ugly?

[Adam McGreggor]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:03:11PM -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> 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.

Seen the latest version in Debian packages, but *grumble*, they're not
the quickest for throwing out new versions, are they ;)

It looks a bit faux-Windows-control panel for my liking in the
screen-shots on the site, though.

[...]
>     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.

For Mailman, where it was a case of lots of changes on a regular basis,
I script stuff using the CLI tools, db-dumps, diff, and cron. Does the
job, I find.

[...]

> 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.

Which, I think is, to me, its selling point...