is webmin safe as a control panel?

we are a web advertising network, that just migrated to a red hat 7.2.

we need basic system administration tasks, as on the server.
what is the ,best affordable or open source, software for server administration,that can be used , besides ssh ?

my isp didn't want to install webmin,emphasizing some security holes., how safe is it, can it be used ?

thank you,

Webmin is very secure.
If they're paranoid, there is a way to install it using ssl. If your isp thinks webmin is the biggest threat they face, then they're seriously in the dark.

Other than webmin, you're probably going to have to learn how to use ssh to edit config files. I don't recall webmin doing a very good job of detecting where configuration files, and binaries were on a redhat 7.2 install. That's with rmp packages too.
In that case, you have to go in and tell webmin where the files are.

You're best off to just learn how to edit the files by hand, man.
Webmin is best for someone that knows how to configure a package, and wants to make their tasks quicker.

yes i have also found webmin to be very secure,with HTTPS, but if i change the root password,from command line, i uninstall and reinstall webmin as it takes the root pw.
i found that, after changing the root pw, webmin stil accepts the old pw, if not installed agan, thanks.

shann

i think https does not make webmin more or less secure (besides against packet-sniffing)

you need access control, eg. .htaccess, to prevent anyone even trying to hack it.

I hear ya. Just another hazzard of having a distributed services manager. Webmin is scary, because it performs shell functionality.