<p dir="ltr">For a beginning admin - yes. Webmin will do a better job than a beginning admin. Over the years it's become very good at understanding the distro it runs on. That said, its only for Debian, Ubuntu, fedora, rhel (and clones) and suse. There's no change tracking but that's at an enterprise level where a beginning admin won't be found.<br>
Where webmin is really useful is on desktops for non admins to run their own system. I'm specifically thinking developers.<br>
As a set of training wheels it does what needs to be done then the newbie can look at the configuration file to see the syntax.<br>
The hosting tool is great. It does a lot of the tedious editing for a shared server.<br>
Usermin is a great tool for web access to a Linux box for file and mail access. It's especially nice for windows users with a hosting account to poke at their website.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 11, 2014 8:40 PM, "JD" <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Should installing webmin be something that new-to-linux admins do?<br>
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Discuss.<br>
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