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Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

You're reading from   Webmin Administrator's Cookbook Over 100 recipes to leverage the features of Webmin and master the art of administering your web or database servers.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849515849
Length 376 pages
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Michal Karzynski Michal Karzynski
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Webmin Administrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Setting Up Your System FREE CHAPTER 2. User Management 3. Securing Your System 4. Controlling Your System 5. Monitoring Your System 6. Managing Files on Your System 7. Backing Up Your System 8. Running an Apache Web Server 9. Running a MySQL Database Server 10. Running a PostgreSQL Database Server 11. Running Web Applications 12. Setting Up an E-mail Server Index

Controlling who is currently using Webmin


Webmin keeps a log of all the actions performed by users. You can inspect a list of currently open user sessions, check what actions were performed during a session, or close a session, forcing the user to be logged out.

How to do it...

Perform these steps to check which users are currently logged into Webmin:

  1. Navigate to Webmin | Webmin Users.

  2. Click the View Login Sessions icon.

  3. To view the actions performed by the user in this session, click the View logs link next to any session.

You can close any session, except your own, and force the user to log in again. To do this, click the link in the Session ID column. The next time this user clicks a link or submits a form, he/she will be asked to log in again.

How it works...

Whenever a user logs in, Webmin creates a session for him/her. A session consists of a specific ID and associated information about who the owner of the session is and whether the session is active.

The session ID is passed to the user's...

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