Re: linux for beginners

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:04:21 -0500, thunder wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:07:54 -0500, General Schvantzkopf wrote:


I'm quite surprised at your endorsement of webmin. Isn't it taken out
of Debian and Ubuntu repos due to security issues?

It's a fantastic tool. What sort of security issue does it present?. As
long as it's only accessible from your own LAN I don't see how it could
be a problem. If someone has broken into one of your systems all bets
are off anyway.

It uses a browser, doesn't it? Now your security is dependent on
Webmin's security, *and* the browser's, with potential root access.
Leave Webmin open in a tab, while browsing the internet, and protecting
your security becomes quite a bit more complex. You don't have IE
installed on any of your machines, do you? ;-)

Seriously, I don't know enough about Webmin to offer an educated
opinion. I'm just trying to point out, it's added complexity over ssh
also adds potential security issues.

I think the risks are minimal and it's a vastly better tool then anything
Redhat, Ubuntu or SuSE offers. Give it a try and see how easy it is to
set up SAMBA or to configure ssh.
.

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