On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Tobias Korb wrote:
. I just gave webmin a try - looks good, but I'm not sure about its security implications. I'm using it in a shielded environment up to now, but what about servers on the internet?
You can run Webmin in SSL Mode.
I think you can also run yast2 in graphical mode from a remote X desktop on a server without X, using ssh -X (and sudo /sbin/yast2 ) This still doesn't get round the problem that a 32MB RAM box - such as a small firewall, webserver or proxy - probably needs upgrading to 64MB or perhaps higher to be able to use yast2 comfortably - even without X running locally. (Not to mention extra swap space.) It seems a shame people are switching to lighter distributions to avoid memory upgrades on these small DMZ and perimeter servers. I write only about yast2 from 7.3 as I didn't get 8.x yet. Maybe 8.0 yast2 has some memory optimizations. dproc