Installing Usermin
If you would like to make the basic functionality of your system available to its users through an interface similar to Webmin, you can use Webmin's companion product called Usermin. This environment is just as easy to use as Webmin and provides a number of features that do not require administrative privileges:
Reading e-mails
Setting up mail forwarding and auto-replies
Setting up scheduled e-mails
Changing passwords
Executing system commands
Opening an SSH session in the browser
Configuring Apache virtual hosts
Configuring MySQL or PostgreSQL databases
Setting up CRON jobs or scheduled command execution
How to do it...
Installation of Usermin is very simple and using it is analogous to using Webmin. The main difference is that you connect over a different port; the default port for Usermin is 20000.
Let's start by installing Usermin:
If you've installed Webmin from its repository, follow the recipe, Installing software packages from Chapter 1, Setting Up Your System, and install...
