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Idea
#3141: Add Webmin Please!
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Written by gdrouillard the 4 Mar 08 at 18:03.
Category: Server.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
One of the greatest applications for managing servers via a web browser.
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rubbsdecvik wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 19:27
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I think this sounds like a good idea at first, but it's something that most people wouldn't use. I've set up lots of Ubuntu machines and only found a lot of webmin use for one. I think that just keeping it as an optional package is probably best.
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batonac wrote on the 18 Mar 08 at 14:37
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Just adding it to the repositories would be nice.
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 kitterman (Ubuntu Developer) wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 16:55
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It used to be in Debian and Ubuntu. It was removed because there are fundamental incompatibilities between the way webmin manages configuration files and the way it's done in Debian/Ubuntu. Usually it works, but the breakage rate was to high.
It's not coming back. See ebox for a similar system that does not suffer from the same problems.
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geoffbeaumont wrote on the 15 Jul 08 at 08:10
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I'm not surprised ebox doesn't have many problems - it doesn't do much yet..!
Don't get me wrong, it has promise - but it needs a lot of work before it will cover the needs of many (perhaps most) production servers.
It can't even manage local users (or at least I assume that's what the problem was - the debconf routine for ebox wanted to know the details of the LDAP directory I don't have, then couldn't create users and listed none under edit). The modules it does provide are very limited in functionality and barely documented at all (they don't even state what underlying software the modules configure!). Whole major services like Apache aren't provided for, either, and some of the modules that do exist don't do enough to be of any actual use (try setting up a useful Samba server with ebox).
ebox is definitely worthy of inclusion for development work and of putting quite a bit of effort into if it looks like a good long term strategy for Ubuntu, but it *is not* ready for production use and it is a long, long way off being a substitute for Webmin.
I installed ebox and was impressed by it's presentation, but uninstalled after half an hour as it did *none* of what I needed...
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