On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Alvin Starr wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Greg Wright wrote:
>
> I second the motion for Webmin. I have started removing linuxconf from all
> my RH systems or at least disabling them. It is a real pain when your
> system will not reboot just because somebody ran linuxconf. Road trips to
> the computer room at odd hours make you really gun-shy.
I have to concur on the need to disable linuxconf -- it
silently blew away 160 domain records (maintained using
another tool) when a junior sysadmin who was just trying to
install a new network card used it. <frown> Perhaps linuxconf
would be OK with a more limited scope of change mechanism, or
recognizing that it does not understand what it is
encountering and issuing better advisories ...
But so there is no misunderstanding, Webmin MUST be disabled
when not in use, and MUST be configured to 'Not talk with
strangers' -- Indeed, perhaps it should issue alerts into
/var/log/messages, and to root [assuning that all root mail
is directed off-host in /etc/aliases to a regular
sysadmin's userid, as is our practice.] To "YELL when
approached by strangers," so to speak.
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