Webmin? Good, Bad, Ugly?

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Jake Wright wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk> wrote:
> > >     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 ;)
>
> The official Debian package never worked right for me.  I thought Webmin
> sucked until I installed the deb from the Webmin site.

I don't think Webmin settled right with the old Debian philosophy ("be leet of 
F off").  It seems to have always been controversial.  While I liked the fact 
that their packages installed the underlying system packages, I prefer 
Jamie's webmin debs straight from webmin.com

> I want to see more AJAX in the UI, though.

I don't.  Sorry, AJAX just rubs the security-side of me all wrong.

> > 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...
>
> One of many selling points..  The mysql module is better than phpMyAdmin,
> IMHO.  And I'd never get the named.conf syntax right without it.  :-)

Totally.  I will install webmin *if only just* to maintain MySQL.
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