[Sderby] Webmin

[David Bottrill]

David Jolley said:
> Hi Guys (and gals),
>
> Does anyone have any experience running webmin on a server which is
> connected to the internet?  I'm looking to put webmin on one of my
> servers, but I'm reticent about it being publically accessible (either
> on it's known port or another port).  Has anyone got any feeling as to
> how secure webmin actually is, and how it stands up to being attacked?
> The machine in question isn't behind a device doing NAT, it's a machine
> with a proper publically addressable IP address, although it is behind a
> firewall (so I could do per-IP SYN packet throttling to limit any
> attacks).

I've run Webmin via NAT with no probs, as a matter of principle I use SSL
and strong passwords.

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David Bottrill

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