control panel suggestions?

[Craig White]

"David P. Schwartz" wrote:
> 
> When you purchase *nix hardware from many vendors, they include "control
> panel" software.  Eg., one I'm familiar with is from RaQ, that includes a nice
> software management package.  There's a sysadmin interface, a site admin
> interface (for managing user accounts on virtual sites hosted on the machine),
> and a user-level admin interface (for managing your own email and basic web
> settings).
> 
> I'm looking for a nice package like this that can be installed on virtually
> any *nix system.  I'm familiar with one, H*Sphere, but it seems to force you
> to run certain versions of things and you cannot update them, like it prefers
> a particular email package and version number.  (This is how it _looks_, but I
> could be mistaken.)
> 
> I've got a Debian 2.2 server that I want to set up several virtual hosts on,
> and I want to give the users at one of these sites the ability to self-manage
> their account info, like what they'd get with the RaQ management system.
> 
> (I think Stormix was getting ready to release something like this before they
> folded.  Anybody know whatever happened to it?  It doesn't even seem to be on
> their web site any more, suggesting that perhaps somebody else has taken it
> over.)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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Webmin
<http://www.webmin.com>
or
<http://webadmin.sourceforge.net>

Handles lots of different distro's - can be configured to allow users
access to very specific items.

Craig