[GRLUG] webmin

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Quoting Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>:

> I remember back in the Mandrake days webmin was an oft used administration
> tool.

Oft *attempted* to be used. Webmin was terrible.

> 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?

Yes

> Is there something better?

Yes, most distributions offer much better admin tools.  And there is  
WebYast if you want the ultimate in effective and *secure* web  
administration.