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A module used to perform installation and configuration of webmin.
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Version information

  • 0.2.1 (latest)
  • 0.2.0
  • 0.1.0
released Feb 5th 2019

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  • Manual installation
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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'petermanton-webmin', '0.2.1'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add petermanton-webmin
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install petermanton-webmin --version 0.2.1

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petermanton/webmin — version 0.2.1 Feb 5th 2019

webmin

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup
  3. Usage
  4. Reference
  5. Limitations
  6. Development

Description

This module allows you to install and configure Webmin. Works / tested on Puppet 5 and above.

Setup

Simply declare the class - see below for customizing the behaviour.

Usage

The following example installs webmin and performs basic configuration:

class { 'webmin':
  install => true,
  portnum => 80,
  certificate => 'puppet:///certs/certificate.pem',
  webmin_groups =>  [ 'group1:ppp-client pptp-client pptp-server stunnel', 'group2:exim fetchmail jabber', ],
  webmin_users => [ 'user1:group1', 'user2:group2' ],
}

or in Hiera:

webmin::install: true
webmin::portnum: 8080
webmin::managed_config: true
webmin::certificate: puppet:///certs/certificate.pem
webmin::webmin_groups:
    - 'group1:shell custom filemin tunnel file phpini cpan'
    - 'group2:dovecot exim fetchmail jabber ldap-server mysql openslp postfix postgresql'
webmin::webmin_users:
    - 'user1:group1'
    - 'user2:group1'
    - 'user3:group2'

Reference

Classes

::webmin:install This class handles the installation of Puppet via the appropriate package manager.
::webmin:configure This class handles the configuration of Webmin.

Variables

webmin::install Determines whether or not webmin will be installed by this package or not.
webmin::webmin_package_name Defines the package name which is requested from the package manager.
webmin::main_config_path Defines the file path of the main webmin configuration file.
webmin::acl_config_path Defines the file path of the webmin group configuration file.
webmin::user_config_path Defines the file path of the webmin ACL configuration file.
webmin::group_config_path Defines the file path of the webmin user configuration file.
webmin::portnum Defines the bind port for webmin.
webmin::managed_config Determines whether webmin will soley manage the configuration (recommended = true.)
webmin::certificate_path Defines the file path of the webmin certificate.
webmin::certificate Defines where the certificate for Puppet is stored (this should point at a Puppet mount point.)
webmin::webmin_groups Defines the groups and thier assigned roles e.g. <group_name>: <role1> <role2> <role3> ...
webmin::webmin_users Defines the users and their assigned group. (Note: Currently only OS level users are supported.)

Limitations

Compatible with RHEL7/Centos 7 and Debian 9.7 (stretch) and most derivatives (including Ubunutu.)

Development

Planned future support for OpenSUSE and ArchLinux.