Re: [school-discuss] linuxconf

["" <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

Great!  Thanks!  I am home from school today, but will try out all of your
suggestions tomorrow.  Yay!!

Marilyn


Quoting "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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
> > 
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