General Information
Webmin is an excellent web-based administration tools package for
various Unix systems. With the package installed, you can perform many
system tasks such as user management, Samba, Squid and Apache
configuration, etc. through a web browser.
Requirements
- FreeBSD box.
- Local root access on the box or be able to su to root.
- A SSH client such as puTTy or SecureCRT (if you are setting it up remotely).
- A web browser.
Installation
For this tutorial, we will use Webmin v1.230. Find a convenient folder
to place the webmin-1.230 tarball. For this, we will create and use the
/home/xxxxx/src folder (where xxxxx is your user folder) but you can always use any folder, just be careful.
#
# | mkdir /home/xxxxx/src
cd /home/xxxxx/src |
Download the tarball (You can also pick other mirrors).
Extract the tarball.
#
#
# | tar xvzf webmin-1.230.tar.gz
cd webmin-1.230
./setup.sh |
During
installation, just accept all the defaults when prompted (except, of
course, the administrator's username and password). Webmin is created
using perl so remember your default Perl5 installation (usually
/usr/bin/perl).
If you use the default port number for Webmin installation with secure
connection support, you can access your Webmin installation using (but
I suggest changing it to something else)
. Without encryption on your web server, you use
. You can also access webmin remotely
.
To uninstall Webmin, find the uninstall.sh script and run it. (If you
accept the default settings during installation, the uninstall.sh
script is located in the
/etc/webmin/ folder.)
#
# | cd /etc/webmin/
./uninstall.sh |
Configuration
After everything is installed, login using the username and password
you gave during setup. Check out the various menu links. Common
interests include configuring Samba, Squid, Apache and User
Administration. Webmin is such a gold mine for intruders so remember to
take necessary precuations.
That’s it.
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