the option of specifying the interface on which Webmin should listen.

The next option allows you to mention the port on which the Webmin server

will accept requests. Change this from the default value of 10000, to any

other port in the range of 1025 - 65535. If possible, make sure no other

services are running on the port that you have chosen. One simple way of

cross checking is to look out for that port in the file /etc/services. If

you see any other service that requires that port and you are using it

already then choose another port.

---- IP Access Control ----

__ Allow from all addresses DDDDDDD

__ Only allow from listed addresses DDDDDDD

__ Deny from listed addresses DDDDDDD

Another important setting that I need to touch upon is the remote and

local addresses which can connect to the Webmin server. By default any IP

address can connect to the Webmin server. You should change this setting

to reflect the machine/machines from which you would allow connections to

the Webmin server. The drawback however is that you have to explicitly

mention every IP address that is allowed to make connections to this

server, the IP/Netmask pair doesn't work out here. This is not a problem

because you should allow access to Webmin from only a few trusted

machines. Every time you make a change to any Webmin configuration make it

a point to save the changes. Enabling logging and login timeouts is also

recommended.

Webmin features and settings

Coming to the main Webmin configuration the various main sections that you

will find in Webmin are as follows.

-- Webmin

-- System

-- Servers

-- Hardware

-- Others

Webmin - The first section by default is "Webmin" and is meant to help you

configure your Webmin setup as we saw earlier. This section generally

deals with ACCESS privileges, ACL's, ports, logging, user access and

various other parameters related to Webmin setup. I suggest that you give

this section a serious look.

System - This section consists of the following settings

Bootup and Shutdown

This section helps you reboot or shutdown the system and also

configure the different services that are running on your system through

the /etc/rc.d/rc.* scripts. You could always stop, start or restart any

services from the options provided out here.