Re: Web-based admin tool(s)

[Steve Miller <steve@experts-exchange.com>]

You may want to look into the Webmin project... there's
quite a bit of potential there.

http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

My philosophy is... after learning to do it the hardest
way possible and spilling the guts of a thing all over
your nice new trousers... put it back together -- then,
if it works, promote yourself to a web-based admin tool. :)

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Shane B. Milburn wrote:

> 
> All,
> 
> I'm looking for a web-based admin tool for account creation,
> group adds, etc. Anyone have any suggestions for such a
> tool? 
> 
> If I have to I'll just write my own, but I hate to reinvent
> the wheel. Besides I have some SAN design and deployment I
> would rather being doing instead of writing code.
> 
> I only have two requirements, 1) the tool works with NIS
> password, group, netgroup, etc files. 2) Does not require 
> any commerical software.
> 
> I realize the security risks in a web-based admintool.
> But I have a secure web server on a private network
> locked down to only the sysadmin machines for access.
> There is also NIS authentication on top of that before 
> you even get into the site.
> 
> If you know of such a tool or something home-grown
> you would like to share please let me know. 
> 
> cheers,
> -shane
> 
> Shane B. Milburn                           Email: milburn@panix.com
> Sr. Systems Administrator                  Pager: 503-921-1264
> 
> 
> 

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