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Re: webmin



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... 
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