Help with Cyrus

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> Good for you.  I don't begin to understand the attitude that has kept
> >> webmin out of ubuntu.
> >
> > It's not an attitude.  The upstream debian packagers retired and it just
> > died.
>
> Ah.  That's OK then. That's not what I'd heard.  Here I've heard people
> describe webmin as a security hazard, and on many lists I hear statements
> that anyone who needs a gui to get "XYZ" configured shouldn't be a
> sysadmin.  I don't use webmin, but I'm a firm believer in _good_ guis for
> managing complicated servers.  A gui should be able to stop people making
> most of the really stupid mistakes (and would the sysadmin out there who's
> never made a stupid mistake please speak up?).
> --
> derek


Webmin is a great way to package an otherwise stable but unfriendly server.  
Religious zealots and small-time folk tend to miss the fact that Linux needs 
to be used (even servers) by non-freaks (and I my hat in with the freaks).
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