From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 30 11: 9:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bacchus.elanders.no (bacchus.elanders.no [194.248.7.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B189E14DD6 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andersbsd@bacchus.elanders.no) Received: from anders (ppp020.uio.no [129.240.240.21]) by bacchus.elanders.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA32378; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:09:22 GMT (envelope-from andersbsd@bacchus.elanders.no) Message-ID: <00c001be9334$eb172e60$15f0f081@anders> From: "Anders Hanssen" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?=" , , "Deepwell Internet" Subject: Re: DNS scripts (webmin/security) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:11:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, All! I've also checked out webmin, and I'm wondering... how wise is it to have it running? Isn't this a easy way to get hacked? I mean, a http daemon with root privilegies? Is MiniServ/0.01 that secure? -Anders >Hi > You should check this page http://www.webmin.com , the webmin software >its a very good pakage to manage your server by more than one person, it let >you give priviledges to users to configure services, I think it does what >you want, and it does it with a web interface. >Ales >> Hello, >> We are the primary name server for quite a few domains. Some are >hosted >> by us, and some have web/mail hosting through customers of ours >> (co-locations). Up until recently all of our DNS administration was done >> manually by editing the zone files and doing a named.restart. This >> situation has a large room for error. >> >> How are other freeBSD-based ISP's handling administration of DNS by >more >> than one person? Is there a good tool for doing this? Mainly I'm looking >> for something that will update the PTR records automatically, update the >> serial number, and do a general sanity check. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message