control panel suggestions?

[David P. Schwartz]

Craig White wrote:

> "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?
> >
> -----------
> 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

I'm familiar with WebMin.  I prefer it to the command line for admin stuff, but I can't really see giving this to users to manage their
email and web accounts. Are you using it that way?  Can you point me to some examples?  (even screen shots are fine.)

-David