Webmin administrator's cookbook / Michał Karzyński.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karzyński, Michal, author.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

UNIX (Computer file).

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written in a cookbook format with practical recipes this book helps you to perform various administrative tasks using Webmin and enables you to perform common jobs more efficiently.This book is perfect for System administrators who want to learn more advanced concepts of Webmin and how it can help to set up a server for development, testing or deployment.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Setting up Your System; Introduction; Installing Webmin on a Debian-based system; Installing Webmin on an RPM-based system; Installing Webmin on another system; Connecting to Webmin; Installing additional Webmin modules; Monitoring what Webmin is doing; Controlling which system services are started at boot; Inspecting the installed software packages; Installing software packages; Updating the installed packages to latest versions; Enabling Webmin to send e-mail

Getting an e-mail when new versions of packages become availableReading the documentation of installed software; Chapter 2: User Management; Introduction; Creating a Webmin user; Creating a Webmin group with access to specific modules and options; Allowing users to log in to Webmin with system credentials; Creating Webmin users based on system accounts; Controlling who is currently using Webmin; Creating a system user account; Modifying a user's UID and other information; Temporarily disabling a user account; Creating and editing a system group; Changing a user's password

Exporting users and importing them into another systemInstalling Usermin; Chapter 3: Securing Your System; Introduction; Setting up a Linux firewall; Allowing access to a service through the firewall; Verifying your firewall by port scanning; Turning off unnecessary services; Verifying the strength of passwords; Disabling root login over SSH; Restricting Webmin access to a specific IP; Connecting to Webmin securely over an SSH tunnel; Closing inactive Webmin sessions automatically; Chapter 4: Controlling Your System; Introduction; Executing a command on the server

Executing a command as another userSetting a command to be executed in the future; Scheduling a command to run regularly with cron; Creating a panel for the commands that you execute often; Creating a panel with the database commands that you execute often; Running a terminal emulator in the browser; Chapter 5: Monitoring Your System; Introduction; Viewing and searching through system logfiles; Saving Syslog messages to a file; Adding other logfiles to Webmin; Configuring logfile rotation; Listing recent logins; Receiving an e-mail when a service stops running

Automatically restarting a service which goes downMonitoring a remote server; Chapter 6: Managing Files on Your System; Introduction; Downloading files from the server; Uploading files to the server; Managing files and directories on the server; Changing file ownership and permissions; Setting up network shared folders for Windows; Mounting a Windows shared folder; Setting up an NFS shared volume; Mounting a remote NFS volume; Giving users access to your server via SFTP; Giving users access to your server via FTP; Chapter 7: Backing Up Your System; Introduction; Backing up configuration files

Restoring configuration files from backup

Notes:

"Quick answers to common questions" --Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 7, 2014).

ISBN:

9781849515856

1849515859

OCLC:

875641118