On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 06:25 -0700, marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi there! > > Here is a question for the system administrator folks. That'd be me :) > > > Back in the days when I used Red Hat and Mandrake, I used a tool called > linuxconf that was just great for my simple needs. > > In the past two years I have switched to Debian based products. My students use > Ubuntu-Studio, the Musix live CD, and sometimes Knoppix. These are great for > classroom work. > > However, I like to run a server in the classroom. It is cool to have an > Intranet server, use ssh, ftp, and sendmail for classroom mail. When I had > linuxconf, I could configure Apache and all of those other things in this one > handy little tool. > > Apache is installed and running, but I want to setup my webmastering students to > access their own directories through ftp and ssh. Ssh works, but not ftp. > Also, I want the kids to be able to run programs through ssh. Pine works fine, > but it gives an xserver error when I try to run a GUI. Some notes here: Most distros ship either without ftp or with it off by default - no login security at all. Use scp or sftp (Look at Filezilla for a gui) In order to use Xwindows applications through ssh, it is now required to _tell_ ssh to use X. The following does the trick from a running xterminal window : ssh -X user@foomachine bluefish This will run bluefish (great html editor BTW) through the ssh tunnel and close the tunnel when the user exits bluefish. Note that the "X" is a capitol X. Note also that the foomachine sshd.conf must be configured to allow X traffic ( must have "X11Forwarding yes", default is no). > > Is there some tool like linuxconf for Debian? An outstanding sysadmin tool is called webmin. It is a browser-based interface and it can setup and control nearly _EVERY_ aspect of a *NIX system. The principle author has a book on the product (highly recommended!) and that helps fund more coding. The really nice thing about webmin is it is platform/distro agnostic. So RedHat, Debian, Suse, it all just works. > > Thanks! > > > Marilyn > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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