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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.
>
>



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