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I used Webmin[0] back in the day, I wonder how more recent server web UIs like Cockpit stack up.

I looked at this and said "They've made Webmin again."

with all the potential vulnerabilities of 400 npm dependencies (I'm guessing. It's probably higher)

We don't need security. We already know your age and who you are. /s

It's neutered and not as full featured, but not bad in a pinch. All of these web admin tools are hacks that call out to shell scripts and whatnot. It requires a lot of conditional behavior and/or vertical integration. "Linux" has no consistent API for control, so its all duct tape. Webmin is the same, tbh (swap perl for whatever cockpit is written in)

45Drives uses cockpit as the UI layer of their "Houston" operating system. https://www.45drives.com/community/articles/New-Operating-Sy...

Cockpit tends to be less ad-hoc than others ime. Often it'll use dbus on the backend.

It's also socket activated, which is nice.

> All of these web admin tools are hacks that call out to shell scripts and whatnot

I love the smell of RCEs in the morning.

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