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Re: webmin



On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a. Frodo wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> >Are you *sure* that you want to do remote administration based on Perl,
> or >any other interpreted language ? Even through SSL ?  What is so bad
> in interpreted languages? Or putting it another way: what additional
> security compiled code provides compared to an interpreted script? 
> (provided you take all necessary measures, which are the same in both
> cases - strict paths, avoiding system(argv[i]), etc.).  Another question
> is: are you sure you want remote administration via WWW at all? Still
> seems a bit scary to me... But then I'm paranoid...  


Yeah, right. The only thing you *need* is a telnet with the ability to
issue 'killall -9 <the_bastards>'. Then you can think about GUIs. I said
so before. The only trick is, how do you convince click-happy would-be
Apache users that writing configuration files using vi in a L95 telnet
window after reading a 30-page manual (yuck) is better than
click-click-click-<whee-splash> (whee-splash is the sound lemmings make
when they go over the cliff).

P. 

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