[GRLUG] webmin

[Ben Rousch]

Mike hit the nail on the head. I used Webmin many, many years ago and
ran into exactly the problems he described.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I remember back in the Mandrake days webmin was an oft used administration
>> tool.  I don't hear about it much these days.  In fact ubuntu doesn't even
>> have it in it's repository.   I just looked it up and found it is still
>> being updated.  Is there a reason that it isn't used much now days?  Is it a
>> constant hack vector?  Is there something better?
>
> Webmin is an OK tool if you don't intend for any of your
> administrators to modify configuration files using any tools other
> than Webmin, ever.
>
> Which is to say, if anyone decides it's a good idea to change a
> setting, and modifies the setting directly, Webmin will stomp all over
> it.
>
> Such is true with just about any file-modifying management tool,
> really; if you use it to manage something, you need to use _only_ it
> to manage that thing.
>
> Personally, I advocate learning how to configure things directly,
> rather than using a Webmin interface to do it. You're not subject to
> bugs and limitations of your management tool, and it's far easier to
> share pieces of your configuration when you're soliciting other people
> for assistance, be it in IRC or on a mailing list.
>
> (Depending on your environment, management tools may make sense. But
> that's _really_ dependent on your environment. Webmin may make sense
> in one context. Puppet in another. Chef in another. It depends.)
>
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