root access to swat...

[Mike Brodbelt]

> Mike Egglestone wrote:
> 
> Hi all....
> 
> When you want to edit the smb.conf via swat....do you have to login
> as root...?
> I'm asking because I get kinda of nervous when I have to enter
> the root password through a web browser.......(not the browser on the
> server itself)
> maybe I'll just edit the file manually?
> 
> What do you guys do in this case?

I use Apache+mod_ssl as a wrapper for swat, so my root password never
goes out across the network in an non-encrypted manner.

I have a virtual host directive in my httpd.conf, with "ProxyPass /
http://127.0.0:901/" in it. Swat is set up with tcp wrappers refusing
connections from anywhere other than localhost.

Mike.