Just wanted to see if this tool was approved or disapproved of in the centos community as far as security is concerned.
I have noted that anything that is not a centos package is probably suspect, -so feel free to assure, or warn, at your leisure.
Basically we are looking for a secure GUI based DNS admin tool, (I myself prefer an openbsd or centos dns machine and tyo just edit by hand.)
Most of the GUI tools still need for you to change the serial or not forget a dot at the end, so the GUI case is not as compelling to me as it is our firm and it's customer base.
-karl
On Fri, 2006-08-09 at 14:39 -0700, karl@klxsystems.net wrote:
Just wanted to see if this tool was approved or disapproved of in the centos community as far as security is concerned.
Search the archives. There was very recently a massive thread about this type of app and how insecure they are.
Regards,
Ranbir
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 22:05 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-09 at 14:39 -0700, karl@klxsystems.net wrote:
Just wanted to see if this tool was approved or disapproved of in the centos community as far as security is concerned.
Ain't nuthin but another webadmin and it ain't cool by me. I really don't know how secure/insecure these front ends are but when you think about it...you got a whole lot up and open. ummm I just rather not manage everything thru the web as they all suggest.
jr
karl@klxsystems.net wrote:
Just wanted to see if this tool was approved or disapproved of in the centos community as far as security is concerned.
I have noted that anything that is not a centos package is probably suspect, -so feel free to assure, or warn, at your leisure.
Basically we are looking for a secure GUI based DNS admin tool, (I myself prefer an openbsd or centos dns machine and tyo just edit by hand.)
Most of the GUI tools still need for you to change the serial or not forget a dot at the end, so the GUI case is not as compelling to me as it is our firm and it's customer base.
Check out Webmin.
I have been maintaining zone files for over 10 years. Once I started using Webmin, I pretty much just switched to it.
It defaults to port 10000, you can change that.
It uses a self-signed cert for SSL, you can provide one, as from TinyCA.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
karl@klxsystems.net wrote:
Just wanted to see if this tool was approved or disapproved of in the centos community as far as security is concerned.
I have noted that anything that is not a centos package is probably suspect, -so feel free to assure, or warn, at your leisure.
Basically we are looking for a secure GUI based DNS admin tool, (I myself prefer an openbsd or centos dns machine and tyo just edit by hand.)
Most of the GUI tools still need for you to change the serial or not forget a dot at the end, so the GUI case is not as compelling to me as it is our firm and it's customer base.
Check out Webmin.
I have been maintaining zone files for over 10 years. Once I started using Webmin, I pretty much just switched to it.
It defaults to port 10000, you can change that.
It uses a self-signed cert for SSL, you can provide one, as from TinyCA.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'll have to agree 100% with Robert on this one - I discovered Webmin a couple of years ago in use on a client's machine and started using it myself on my own machines - and the client in question has such levels of paranoia about security that he makes MI5 look like cowboys......
Since starting using it I reckon it takes me 50% less time to set up a machine once I've got Webmin up and running - and you don't need to have a web server running - Webmin can run its own mini HTTP server.
There's also Usermin - I'll leave you to guess what that's for! :-)
David Ellsmore wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
karl@klxsystems.net wrote:
Just wanted to see if this tool was approved or disapproved of in the centos community as far as security is concerned.
I have noted that anything that is not a centos package is probably suspect, -so feel free to assure, or warn, at your leisure.
Basically we are looking for a secure GUI based DNS admin tool, (I myself prefer an openbsd or centos dns machine and tyo just edit by hand.)
Most of the GUI tools still need for you to change the serial or not forget a dot at the end, so the GUI case is not as compelling to me as it is our firm and it's customer base.
Check out Webmin.
I have been maintaining zone files for over 10 years. Once I started using Webmin, I pretty much just switched to it.
It defaults to port 10000, you can change that.
It uses a self-signed cert for SSL, you can provide one, as from TinyCA.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'll have to agree 100% with Robert on this one - I discovered Webmin a couple of years ago in use on a client's machine and started using it myself on my own machines - and the client in question has such levels of paranoia about security that he makes MI5 look like cowboys......
Since starting using it I reckon it takes me 50% less time to set up a machine once I've got Webmin up and running - and you don't need to have a web server running - Webmin can run its own mini HTTP server.
Also easy to do such things as change SSH's port number....
There's also Usermin - I'll leave you to guess what that's for! :-)
On my web server, I have Usermin set up for on of the domains I am hosting.
-
David Ellsmore -
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu -
karl＠klxsystems.net -
rado -
Robert Moskowitz