How do I make webmin secure?

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Published on 2010-05-07T01:03:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 1:08 UTC
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I want to install webmin to make server administration tasks on my Ubuntu 10.4 server easier. However I'm very nervious about having that kind of power accessable over the web.

So I want to know how to secure webmin so that it can't be used to comprimise my server.

So far here are my ideas, but I still don't feel comfortable:

Make webmin accessable from only the localhost (how?)
Use SSH tunneling to access the webmin server whenever I need to administrate it

Can anyone help me with instructions on making webmin accessable only from the localhost?

What other ways can I make webmin secure?

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