Text-based management?

[Dan Doucette]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of gerrynix
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 3:17 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Text-based management?
> 
> 
> --- mylar <micros50 at computer.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 21:29, gerrynix wrote:
> > > Many thanks Karl!
> > > 
> > > I was hoping for something a little more robust, but that 
> will help 
> > > with the non tech users I deal with.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas of add-on, character-based tools that have a 
> little more 
> > > pizzazzzz?
> > > 
> > > Has anyone installed the current ver of linuxconf on FC 4/5?
> > > --
> > > Best,
> > > Nix
> > > 
> > Even if you use text or GUI based config tools it is still 
> a good idea 
> > to learn to manually configure the system by hand editing the 
> > appropriate configuration files. It's still a bit more 
> difficult and 
> > requires a bit of a learning curve but manual configuration 
> is a great 
> > adjunct to automated configuration using GUI or text based tools.
> > 
> > mylar
> 
> 
> Thanks Mylar,
> 
> I totally agree. I am a 16 year (now independent) UNIX/Linux admin.
> I wish I could talk all customers into learning the basics. I 
> use admin interfaces only to show interested clients how to 
> do simple things.
> But this client does not want to learn the command line and 
> does not want to pay consulting fees to do basic things like 
> adding or removing a user, etc. :-(.  I guess he will pay me 
> to recover when he breaks one of them . . . Right? ;)
> --
> Nix
> > 
How about using webmin ? It does a good job of adding/removing users.

Dano