Installing Webmin

Published by jak58 - Last update on October 28, 2008 08:19 AM by jak58

Installing WebMin





Intro


Webmin allows you to remotely manage and administer a Linux based machine from a simple browser.
Here are the instructions to quickly install the administration in Debian Webmin (and Ubuntu):

Installation


Install package needed for WebMin:
sudo apt-get install libnet-ssleay-perl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl


Go to http://www.webmin.com/download.html

Download the .deb (e.g. webmin_1.390_all.deb)

To install WebMin, double-click on .deb or type in:
sudo dpkg --install webmin_1.390_all.deb 


To enter password:
sudo /usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root your_password


Note that: This does not change the root password, but the password for the Webmin admin called "root".

Go to https://localhost:10000/ and log in with the "root" account and your password.

Login



Monitoring your system:



Using the firewall utility: