Webmin Administrator's Cookbook.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing,
2014.
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Colección: | Quick answers to common problems
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.