How do you access Webmin? Webmin. If you are using the DEB version of webmin, first download the file from the downloads page , or run the command : wget then run the command : dpkg --install webmin_1.820_all.deb The install will be done automatically to /usr/share/webmin, the administration username set to root and the password to your current root password.
You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL Or if accessing it remotely, replace localhost with your system's IP address. If Debian complains about missing dependencies, you can install them with the command : apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python If you are installing on Ubuntu and the apt-get command reports that some of the packages cannot be found, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure the lines ending with universe are not commented out. Some Debian-based distributions (Ubuntu in particular) don't allow logins by the root user by default.
Using Webmin on The Ubuntu Server.