[LBo] Webmin and https

[Sam Morgan]

Alan Lake wrote:
> I resolved the problem with Webmin at 
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/72502-apache-webmin-dont-like-each-other.html 
> 
> 
> Webmin doesn't use Apache.  It has its own webserver.  The answer given 
> at the above site was for the Debian distribution.  I use Fedora Core 
> 6.   The configuration file's name is a little different and the fix was 
> different, but this site did point me in the right direction.
> 
> On FC6, the configuration file is named /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf 
> instead of Debian's /etc/webmin/miniserve.conf.  In this file, I found a 
> line that said SSL=1.  I changed it to SSL=0.  I rebooted, although I 
> probably could have restarted the Webmin service, and it works fine.
>
isn't that for SSL1 or SSL2   as opposed to meaning no ssl by using SSL=0

I have never allow my webmin to be accessible from anywhere than on the machine 
it was running on. Never from out in the internet. I'm not that sure of my 
ability to have all the security setting like they need to be.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but it sounds scary to me.

> However, I'm still left with my original problem, which I'll submit in 
> another post.
> 
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God Bless,
Sam Morgan

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