Re: New to Linux

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:34:24 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

On 4 Dec 2006 21:27:29 GMT, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

Webmin is a browser based admin tool, you access it by doing
http://machine_name:10000 from any system on your LAN. Webmin works with
just about any Linux distribution.

On MandrivaLinux it's https://machine_name:10000 :)

SSL encryption is an option on Webmin, they've started to turn it on by
default, you can turn it on or off on any distro. If you have it on and
you type http: instead of https: you will be redirected to https:
.

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