[NTLUG:Discuss] webmin (was MTA's)

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Thu Aug 29 04:36:20 CDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 19:39, Greg Edwards wrote:
> If your reason for dropping sendmail is only an issue with the config 
> files I'd suggest taking a look at the admin interface in webmin.  I've 
> been playing with webmin in a serious way over the last 6 mos and I'm 
> very impressed.  The interface for sendmail is fairly well done and does 
> eliminate the need to "vi" the files.

Side note:  Webmin had some recent vulns announced.  Makes sure you are
running the latest version and don't allow access from unknown systems.

http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5CP0R1P80G.html

up to v9.2 is bad, v9.21 is the closest things to patched and there is a
'fix' listed above.  I didn't see anything on the webmin site.

Paranoia is not always a bad thing ;^)

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