GUI server tools?

[Wouter Eerdekens]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
> A me too. I just used sudo to compile webmin. No root login required.

Nice to now. But I saw a thread on this in the beginning of october that 
a root password was required. Since I don't use webmin, I can't tell. I 
just tought I'd warn you of possible problems. But nice to know it works.

> 
> PS Is Ubunutu (1) somewhat similar, (2) very similar, or (3) virtually
> identical to Debian 3.1?

I think (1) somewhat similar is the correct answer. See this story:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8286

(an interview with Jeff Waugh on Ubuntu)

Cheers,
Wouter

> 
> Eric.
> 
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:49:47 -0500, Romeyn Prescott
> <prescor at digirom.potsdam.edu> wrote:
> 
>>I beg to differ, but I just installed webmin using nothing more than
>>'sudo -s' and then running the install script.  I have not activated
>>the root user.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>...ROMeyn
>>
>>At 3:56 PM +0100 11/16/04, Wouter Eerdekens scribbled:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Please note that Webmin cannot be installed with sudo. You'll have to
>>>activate a root password with
>>>
>>>sudo passwd
>>>
>>>and become "real" root to install Webmin. I haven't installed it myself
>>>(I like the CLI) but I've seen it mentioned on this list before.
>>>
>>>Wouter
> 
> 

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