GUI server tools?

[Romeyn Prescott]

At 2:20 PM +0800 11/17/04, John scribbled:
>Romeyn Prescott 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.
>>
>
>Last time I installed webmin (which was quite some time ago, and 
>certainly not on U) it took the then-current root password and used 
>it for its own, in its own private place. Changing root password 
>later did not change W's idea of the root password.
>
>If it still does that, installing it without a root password already 
>set will leave webmin unusable you learn to crack it.

Webmin is in active development.  Current version is 1.170, I think. 
The setup.sh script prompt you for everything, including the 'admin' 
username and password, which are distinct and separate from anything 
in /etc/passwd.  To my knowledge, they always have been (and I've 
been using Webmin almost since it was born).  But that's a long time, 
I'll admit, and I might be wrong about that!

...ROMeyn
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