#Webmin default password install
#Webmin default password password
#Webmin default password download

Either way, a web form will appear prompting for a username and password as shown in Figure 2-1. Open a web browser, and go to the URL if you are running the browser on the same Linux system that Webmin was installed on, or if the browser is being run on another PC.

#Webmin default password install

This can fail if one of the files that contain the distribution name (such as /etc/issue) has been modified.Īssuming the RPM install completes successfully, you will be able to login to Webmin immediately. Because all Linux distributions are slightly different, the Webmin install process has to positively identify the exact distribution and version that you are running, such as Redhat 7.3. If that occurs and your Linux distribution is on the list of those supported, you should install the tar.gz version instead. The RPM install can only fail if you do not have Perl installed, or if Webmin cannot identify your operating system. Once you have downloaded it, you should have a file on your Linux system named something like webmin-1.1. To install, run the following command as root: On every page of the Webmin website is a link in the top-right corner for the RPM package. Solaris package If you are running Solaris on Sparc or x86, then this is the package format for you.įor instructions on installing your chosen package type, see the appropriate section below. tar.gz The tar.gz packaged version of Webmin will work on any operating system, but is slightly harder to install than the RPM and Solaris packages. RPM If you are running Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, Caldera, MSC or any other Linux distribution which supports the RPM packaging format, then the RPM package is your best choice.

#Webmin default password download

Operating system is not on the list, you cannot use Webmin.īefore downloading Webmin for installation on your system, you have to choose which package format to download it in. To see a complete list of supported operating systems, visit the web page. Because it deals with system configuration files that differ in location and format between different kinds of Unix operating system, it has been written to behave differently depending on the type of operating system that it is running on. While Webmin supports a wide variety of Unix variants, it does not cover all of them. Any changes that you have made to the configuration of Webmin itself or to other servers like Apache or Sendmail will be left unharmed by the upgrade. If you are upgrading from an older Webmin version, the process is exactly the same as installing for the first time. On Gentoo Linux, the command emerge webmin will install the latest version from the Gentoo Portage repository, which should be the same as the newest official release. However, this can sometimes be a few versions behind the newest official release, so you may want to download from instead. On Debian, the command apt-get install webmin will install the latest version available in the Debian APT repository. Other Linux distributions like Debian and Gentoo include Webmin as a package that can be downloaded and installed automatically. But if you are happy with the release that you already have, you can skip this chapter. However, the version that they include may not be the latest official version that is available for download.

Some Linux distributions such as Mandrake and Caldera include Webmin as standard, so it may already be installed on your system. If you download a later release, the version number in all the filenames and paths will have changed. However, all the instructionsīelow will use version 1.070 for the filenames. At the time of writing, the latest release was version 1.070, but new versions come out frequently. The latest version of Webmin can always be downloaded from.