Webmin Administrator's Cookbook. Over 100 recipes to leverage the features of Webmin and master the art of administering your web or database servers - Helion
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Autor: Michal KarzynskiTytuł oryginału: Webmin Administrator's Cookbook. Over 100 recipes to leverage the features of Webmin and master the art of administering your web or database servers.
ISBN: 9781849515856
stron: 376, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2014-03-26
Księgarnia: Helion
Cena książki: 139,00 zł
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Webmin Administrator's Cookbook. Over 100 recipes to leverage the features of Webmin and master the art of administering your web or database servers eBook -- spis treści
- Webmin Administrators Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Webmin Administrator's Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Setting Up Your System
- Introduction
- Installing Webmin on a Debian-based system
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Installing Webmin on an RPM-based system
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Installing Webmin on another system
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Connecting to Webmin
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Changing Webmin's listening port
- Specifying the IP address on which Webmin listens
- Installing additional Webmin modules
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Installing a module from a repository
- Uninstalling a module
- See also
- Monitoring what Webmin is doing
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Rolling back file changes
- See also
- Controlling which system services are started at boot
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating a custom init script
- Inspecting active processes
- Inspecting the installed software packages
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Viewing the files installed with a package
- Identifying which package installed a file
- Installing software packages
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Updating the installed packages to the latest versions
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Enabling Webmin to send an e-mail
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Getting an e-mail when new versions of packages become available
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Reading the documentation of the installed software
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 2. User Management
- Introduction
- Creating a Webmin user
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Clone a Webmin user
- Switch to user
- See also
- Creating a Webmin group with access to specific modules and options
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Permissions for all modules
- See also
- Allowing users to log in to Webmin with the system credentials
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating Webmin users based on system accounts
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Controlling who is currently using Webmin
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating a system user account
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Modifying a user's UID and other information
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Temporarily disabling a user account
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating and editing a system group
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Changing a user's password
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Exporting users and importing them into another system
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Webmin's batch file format for operations on users
- Webmin's batch file format for operations on groups
- There's more...
- Export and import system groups
- Batch update user accounts
- Batch delete user accounts
- See also
- Installing Usermin
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- 3. Securing Your System
- Introduction
- Server security checklist
- Keeping your system up-to-date
- Turning off unnecessary services
- Building a firewall around your system
- Performing backups
- Monitoring your system
- Verifying the strength of your passwords
- Verifying the system security and setting up intrusion detection and prevention software
- Server security checklist
- Setting up a Linux firewall
- Some iptables terminology
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Allowing access to a service through the firewall
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating a service accessible only from the internal network
- See also
- Verifying your firewall by port scanning
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Host discovery with Nmap
- Scanning all ports
- Scanning without administrative privileges
- See also
- Turning off unnecessary services
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Verifying the strength of passwords
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Disabling root login over SSH
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Restricting Webmin access to a specific IP
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Allowing access from multiple IP addresses
- Allowing access from a dynamically allocated IP
- Allowing access from an IP range
- Allowing access from the local network
- Connecting to Webmin securely over an SSH tunnel
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Sharing the SSH tunnel with other machines
- Creating a tunnel on Windows using Putty
- See also
- Closing inactive Webmin sessions automatically
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Introduction
- 4. Controlling Your System
- Introduction
- Executing a command on the server
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Executing a series of commands
- Executing commands conditionally
- Executing a command from history
- Executing a command as another user
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Passing input to a command
- Running tasks in background
- Setting a command to be executed in the future
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Scheduling a command to run regularly with cron
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Disabling a cron task temporarily
- Cloning a cron task
- Specifying which users can schedule tasks with cron
- Creating a panel for the commands that you execute often
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Cloning a command
- Specifying command arguments
- Making the command available in Usermin
- See also
- Creating a panel with the database commands that you execute often
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Running a terminal emulator in the browser
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 5. Monitoring Your System
- Introduction
- Viewing and searching through system logfiles
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works
- There's more...
- Configuring system logs to refresh automatically
- See also
- Saving Syslog messages to a file
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Adding other logfiles to Webmin
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Configuring logfile rotation
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Rotating logfiles on demand
- Editing default options
- Sending logfiles by email when rotating
- Listing recent logins
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Receiving an e-mail when a service stops running
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Inspecting monitor history
- Using predefined monitors
- Monitoring system load
- Monitoring disk space
- See also
- Automatically restarting a service that goes down
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Monitoring a remote server
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Checking that a remote server is up
- Checking that a remote server is running a network service
- 6. Managing Files on Your System
- Introduction
- Downloading files from the server
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Uploading files to the server
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Downloading files from the Web directly onto your server
- Downloading files from the Web in the background
- Managing files and directories on the server
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Copying or moving a file or directory
- Renaming a file or directory
- Deleting a file or directory
- Editing a file on the server
- Creating a directory on the server
- Creating a new file on the server
- Creating a symbolic link on the server
- Downloading a directory and its content
- Extracting files from a compressed archive
- How it works...
- See also
- Changing file ownership and permissions
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Enabling the setuid bit on an executable file
- Setting the sticky bit on a directory
- Changing ACLs on a directory
- Setting up network-shared folders for Windows
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating a UNIX pseudo user
- Creating a Samba shared network folder
- Creating Samba user accounts
- Granting Samba users access to the shared folder
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Sharing home directories
- Checking who's connected and disconnecting sessions
- Debugging Samba
- Mounting a Windows-shared folder
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Setting up an NFS-shared volume
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Granting access to multiple clients
- See also
- Mounting a remote NFS volume
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Mounting NFS v4 exports
- See also
- Giving users access to your server via SFTP
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Giving users access to your server via FTP
- How to do it...
- Opening FTP access in your firewall
- How it works...
- Passive and active FTP connections
- Global configuration and virtual servers
- There's more...
- Restricting access to users' home directories
- Denying FTP access to some users
- FTP-only users
- See also
- How to do it...
- 7. Backing Up Your System
- Introduction
- Backing up configuration files
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Restoring configuration files from backup
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Automatically backing up configuration files
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Creating a backup of a selected directory
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Restoring files from a backup archive
- See also
- Creating a backup of an entire mount point
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating an incremental backup archive
- Restoring data from a backup archive
- See also
- Backing up to a remote host
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Setting up automatic backups
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Backing up databases
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- 8. Running an Apache Web Server
- Introduction
- Installing Apache on your system
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Setting Apache to start at system boot time
- Monitoring that Apache is up and running
- See also
- Restarting Apache
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Verifying Apache configuration syntax
- Enabling Apache modules
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Installing additional modules from software packages
- Creating a static HTML site
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Creating a virtual host
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating an IP-based virtual host
- See also
- Setting options for directories, files, and locations
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Setting options on files with names matching a pattern
- Setting options for specific URLs
- Changing matching path or pattern
- Setting options using an .htaccess file
- Creating a password-protected website
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating a user account
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Keeping Apache and system accounts synchronized
- See also
- Displaying a listing of files in a directory
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Redirecting incoming requests
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating a filesystem alias
- Setting up encrypted websites with SSL
- Getting ready
- Generating a private key
- Making a self-signed certificate
- Obtaining a commercially signed certificate
- Inspecting certificate data
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Getting ready
- Logging incoming requests and errors
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Analyzing logfiles using Webalizer
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 9. Running a MySQL Database Server
- Introduction
- Installing the MySQL database server
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Making MySQL ready for production use
- See also
- Allowing access to MySQL over the network
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Instructing MySQL server to listen for network connections
- Creating a new user
- Granting user access to database
- Testing the connection
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Managing databases remotely
- See also
- Accessing your MySQL server over an SSH tunnel
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Making an SSH tunnel in MySQL Workbench
- See also
- Creating a new database
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Creating users and granting permissions to databases
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating a user account
- Granting privileges
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Granting permissions to a specific database table
- Granting permissions to a specific column in a database table
- Automatically granting new system users access to MySQL
- Creating a backup of your database
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Backing up all databases automatically
- Exporting a database table to CSV
- See also
- Executing custom SQL commands
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Restoring database from the backup
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Editing the structure of your database
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating a table in a database
- Adding a field to a database table
- Editing a field
- Creating an index
- Deleting an index
- Deleting a field
- Deleting a table from the database
- How it works...
- See also
- Editing records in a database
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Adding a row to database table
- Editing a row
- Deleting a row
- How it works...
- See also
- Checking who is using your database server
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Installing phpMyAdmin
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 10. Running a PostgreSQL Database Server
- Introduction
- Installing the PostgreSQL database server
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Locating the PostgreSQL server configuration files
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Determining location of other configuration files and data files
- Checking values of other settings
- Allowing access to PostgreSQL over the network
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Accessing the PostgreSQL server over an SSH tunnel
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Creating a new database
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Creating users and granting permissions
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Creating a backup of your database
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Backing up all databases automatically
- Exporting a database table to CSV
- See also
- Executing custom SQL commands
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Executing a SQL script from a file
- See also
- Restoring a database from backup
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Editing the structure of your database
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Editing records in a database
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Installing phpPgAdmin
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- 11. Running Web Applications
- Introduction
- Generating dynamic pages using CGI
- Getting ready
- Checking what user and group Apache is running as
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Displaying incoming request headers
- Displaying incoming request body
- See also
- Getting ready
- Installing PHP
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Changing PHP configuration settings
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Modifying PHP settings for a directory using .htaccess files
- Modifying PHP settings dynamically inside script code
- See also
- Displaying PHP errors while debugging
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Logging in PHP
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Installing WordPress on your server
- How to do it...
- Creating a database
- Creating a virtual host and installing WordPress
- How it works...
- See also
- How to do it...
- Installing Drupal on your server
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating a database
- Creating a virtual host and installing WordPress
- How it works...
- See also
- Installing a Django-based application using mod_wsgi
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- 12. Setting Up an E-mail Server
- Introduction
- Setting up your server to send and receive e-mails
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Setting up secure IMAP access to mailboxes
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Setting up a secure SMTP relay for users
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Controlling the mail queue
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Reading and writing e-mails on the server
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring e-mail aliases
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating a simple mailing list
- Using .forward files
- See also
- Filtering incoming mail using Procmail and SpamAssassin
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Debugging e-mail-related problems
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Analyzing mail logs
- Testing message sending through Webmin
- Sending mail from the command line
- Using Telnet to test SMTP authentication
- See also
- Index