From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: Webmin is not supported. It is a really good tool. Please support it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat Linux 9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Red Hat Linux 2. Look for Webmin 3. Sigh with disappointment 4. Login to bugzilla 5. Read http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68288 6. Put Bill Nottingham on "no Christmas card" list. Expected Results: 1. Install Red Hat Linux 2. Look for Webmin 3. Sigh with contentment 4. Thank Red Hat for listening to their customers and recommend Bill for a raise. Additional info:
To elaborate a little: - it has a bad security history - it doesn't integrate with the current tools we have - it doesn't look like an infrastructure we'd want to base future tools on. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68288 ***
Thanks, Bill. That was a little better than your effort on 68288! :-)
So, is Bill on the Christmas card list now at least? ;o)
He hasn't put webmin in yet, has he? ;-) Seriously, though, i understand the first point (security), but does it matter that it's not something that integrates with the current Red Hat tools and isn't something that Red Hat wants to work on? (Surely the same three points apply to, say, sendmail as well. However, it's in the distribution because it's a piece of software people expect to see there.) One of my IT support team members has worked on Windows & Novell all his computing life, and is scared to try Linux. Webmin makes it possible for him to use Linux even though he doesn't use Linux. The redhat-config-* tools require an X server, and don't have the breadth of coverage that webmin has, whereas Webmin works from anywhere (so you can be at the computer you are trying to fix - which is not a Linux computer either - rather than at your desk), and has a huge number of modules. I'm not trying to twist your arm here, rather just asking whether those reasons are really enough for leaving the package out of the distribution.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.