Webmin

When working with Linux , speacially a linux machine far away from you , you need to use ssh to connect , but i am pretty sure everyone will agree using ssh to work with linux is not everyone's cup of tea , So when i came across a tool called webmin. I started installing two things on nearly all machines i worked with

• Openssh server
• Webmin

Webmin is a lightweight tool to handle almost everything , although i have not explored it completely , I know it allows me a complete control of Apache and any other service running on machine.

Also file upload feature very useful when needing to transfer files to server makes is a peice of cake to work with files not to mention the editor which allows one to add files to the server without any problems

How to install (Ubuntu)
In order to get webmin you will have to add it to your repository

You can add this repo in the software center or simply add these lines in the sources list of apt which is mostly located at /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib

deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib
Following this one must get the key to be able to install webmin package


Download following file using a browser then add it in authentication panel of software center


http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc


Now wait for ubuntu software center to get updated info and them search webmin in the software center click on install


After this just log on to


https://{server-address-here}:10000