Re: building a control panel in php

On Wednesday 20 Mar 2002 02:42, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:mnc@stoic.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:49 PM > > To: Paul ... > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] building a control panel in php > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Paul ... wrote: > > > just thinking about making a small control panel for my server so i > > can do > > > the web hosting related things from the web... would php be a good > > language > > > to do this in and if so why?.. what would be the ups and downs? > > > > The fastest way would be to download Webmin from here > > (http://www.webmin.com/), then change all the comments so it says you > > wrote it. > > > > Seriously, you might want to look into that because a lot of people have > > > > already put a lot of work into making something fairly comprehensive. > > > > miguel > > Yes, but how safe can one feel having all this power-functionality over a > webpage? (I presume lots of stuff is SETUID;Correct?) Webmin is modular. You only install the modules you want to control over the web. You can also retrict access to port 10000 (on which it lives by default) in the normal way. I imagine you can set it to do HTTPS connections as well, but I've not tried that because I only use it locally. --jaa