[CentOS] Hosting

Todd Reed treed at astate.edu
Tue Jul 11 13:44:08 UTC 2006


If you use the Bastille Scripts or the iptables to help secure access to webmin, you can defeat some of the exploits.  Also, move the webmin port to something other than 10000!

--Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:24 AM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hosting

Charles Lacroix wrote:

[please trim your mails, some of us only have 10GB of mail storage]

> Recently i configured a webserver for a friend of mine and webmin was what
> the webmaster enjoyed the most :)
> 
> I find it easy to setup and once you cut off ¾ of the icons on the webmin 
> interface it starts to look good.
> 
> I never trusted cpannel, things break here and there for no reason. 

I never trusted webmin, seeing how many exploits (even root exploits)
were available for it. usermin was the last I saw a warning for.

Cheers,

Ralph
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