How to install webmin on CentOS/Redhat 7

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="title single-title title20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.24s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;"> <u><span style="color: #990000;">Install webmin on CentOS 7</span></u></h2> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/webmin">Webmin</a> is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. See the s<a href="http://www.webmin.com/standard.html">tandard modules</a> page for a list of all the functions built into Webmin</span></span></div> <div> <ul style="background-color: white;"> <li style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/how-to-install-usermin-on-centos.html"><span style="font-size: large;">How to Install Usermin On Linux</span></a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/01/how-to-install-webmin-on-centos-6.html">How to install webmin on centos 6</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>INSTALLATION STEPS:-</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step-1: </u></b></span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">mkdir /download cd /download</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step-2:</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222;"> Download the rpm file from <a href="http://webmin.com/">webmin.com</a></span></span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">wget </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.791-1.src.rpm</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Once you finish download make sure you have perl package installed, as webmin is a perl application it will check the package when initial installation process begin if it is there it will continue so let’s install perl packages first.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y install perl perl-Net-SSLeay openssl perl-IO-Tty</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step-3:</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222;"> Now install webmin from '.rpm' file we downloaded.</span></span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">rpm -ivUh </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">webmin-1.791-1.src.rpm</span></pre> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Method-2: How to Install webmin using Yum Command.</u></b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Another way to install webmin on your <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos">CentOS</a> 7 Box using Yum Command, since webmin is not in CentOS default Repositories, we have to create webmin repository before installation.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step-1:</span></u></b> Frist step is to create the repository file.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Copy and paste the below code into the file.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">[Webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral #baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist enabled=1</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Save and exit.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step-2:</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222;"> Now download the GPG key using the below command.</span></span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Import the GPG Key</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">rpm –import jcameron-key.asc</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step-3:</span></u></b><span style="color: #222222;"> Finally you can install the webmin using Yum command.</span></span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum install webmin –y</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now open <b>http://serverip:10000</b> in your browser, you could see the below screen after login ( Use root username and password ).</span></span></div> <div> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizudnF5XbG8-xiAO9rt-OQYS8oQCQJ5B_SIsx-apcSksTewahdIeRULIOfuoTY_rpiFC5n8H6xhg8jBjJyCLfy9oUgXgiH9x9snAl7gxB3bNUZaolkfRvNKnXlcWXBgFzkkgCErVgBUnMF/s640/webmin_configuration_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></div> <div> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhea7QjVvwiIdl_-oS5mhbo60n5KhIh5XtfFDlOv0Fz8znuzoJId6qafnlIwv5WfrDPSs9kJkd4z3ISzNfX_mCtXsbXznnRjXeUS8Ntya4dQdOo6ZyYHTMZ5c67Y_SfvSB2tAXt8557eVTd/s640/webmin_useradmin_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></div> </div>

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