[thelist] Newbie with First Ubuntu Server

[Matthew Pulis]

yeah in that case configs is your option :) i taught its just a test box -
if looking at putting it live go safe ;)

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Todd Richards <todd at promisingsites.com>wrote:

> Thanks again.  For now it is kind of just a test box, but these are the
> things that I want to know because I will eventually go live with it.  If
> Webmin is insecure, then I won't mess around with it much.  I'll spend the
> extra time with the configs.
>
> Todd
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> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:57:18 +0100, Matthew Pulis <mpulis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > you might want also to install webmin .. its very good to help you set up
> a
> > server using a gui interface .. i prefer config file editing but webmin
> > helped me do the transition better ;) webmin is not an aptitude package
> > however if im not mistaken you can download the debian and install it :)
>
> There's a reason Webmin isn't in the Ubuntu or Debian repositories: it's
> very insecure. I don't recommend it at all. Rather stick to editing the
> config files, it's not that dofficult.
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