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A: Usermin is a web-based tool for standard UNIX system users. Usermin provides web-based email, spam filter configuration, and optional access to advanced user account features like mail forwarding, vacation auto-responding, PostgreSQL? and MySQL? databases, and a powerful Java File Manager applet.
With Usermin, you can allow your users to maintain their own account, including changing passwords, managing files in their home directory, and more. The key to Usermin's power, however, lies in its limitations. With Usermin, one does not have to think about whether the user has too many privileges. A Usermin user has only the privileges of the logged in user, and cannot override those privileges in the same way as Webmin and Virtualmin can. If you trust a user enough to give them an email account, you can trust them enough to give them a Usermin account.
A: Usermin is licensed under a BSD-like license, and is available for free from here at Virtualmin.com and at the Webmin project site at SourceForge? . It is a completely Open Source project.
A: Yes, this can be done with some configuration. See this page for instructions.
Note that you don't need Apache (or any other standalone webserver) to run Usermin. Usermin includes its own webserver called miniserv.pl. There is no benefit to running Usermin under another web server in the vast majority of environments.
A: By default, when a user composed email the From field contains username@systemhostname. This can be changed by following these steps :
A: By default the module will list all of the databases on your system on the main page, even if some are not actually usable by the logged-in user. To change this, follow these steps :
jcameron: database1 fred: database2 database3 joe: *A * in the database column means all databases, while a * in the username column means any user not listed so far.