Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:19:32 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Anders Hanssen" <andersbsd@bacchus.elanders.no>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Deepwell Internet" <freebsd@deepwell.com> Subject: RE: DNS scripts (webmin/security) Message-ID: <00c501be9335$ff0dd940$f9fbf8cf@megared.net.mx> References: <00c001be9334$eb172e60$15f0f081@anders>
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Hi AFAIK webmin can use SSL, so you can use SSL to secure your communications, by asking a valid certificate from the user that is going to manage the server with webmin software. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Anders Hanssen <andersbsd@bacchus.elanders.no> To: Alejandro Ramírez <ales@megared.net.mx>; <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>; Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 1:11 PM Subject: Re: DNS scripts (webmin/security) > 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
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