Webmin / Usermin and port blocking

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 28.02.2005 schrieb Bob Brennan um 23:31:

> Webmin and Usermin are accessed remotely through ports 10000 and 20000
> respectively - as in http://www.myserver.net:20000
> 
> I work in a company that blocks port 20000 and all other non-essential
> outgoing port requests. Are there any alternative ways of accessing a
> port-bound service like this to get around secure large company sites
> that block direct port connections?
> 
> I guess what I'm asking is about ways to access Usermin as a straight
> HTTP:// connection (ie http://www.myserver.net/usermin) rather than
> port 20000 by making changes on my server.

> bob

You can bind both services to different ports of choice.

$ grep 10010 /etc/webmin/*
/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf:port=10010

You can do this by hand editing the configuration file or inside the web
browser surface of the tool.

Alexander


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