On Wednesday 17 December 2008 20:59:54 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I know I had webmin installed for a long time but rarely used it. I > > just couldn't remember if I used it for setting up printing from windoze > > or not. > > A friend is running webmin on a server and it makes setting up some > services (like CUPS) easier to visualise/understand. However, the login > into webmin is set up with the root passwd. This on an Internet facing > port is making me nervous, but he is sooo attached to GUI solutions I > cannot convince him that ssh is all he needs.
Have you tried using a clue by 4[1] on him? It's the tried and trusty Unix tool developed for this very use case Best demonstrated by pwning his box with a brute-force attack, followed by the spoken word "See?" -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
