2.4. Installing the Solaris Package

The Solaris version of Webmin is only available for download from www.webmin.com/download.html. Once you have downloaded it, you should have a file on your Solaris system named something like webmin-1.1.100-1.pkg.gz. To install, run the following commands as root:

gunzip webmin-1.1.100.pkg.gz
pkgadd –d webmin-1.1.100.pkg.gz WSwebmin

The Solaris package can only fail if you already have Webmin installed, or if you do not have the Perl executable at /usr/local/bin/perl. If you have Perl installed somewhere else on your system, you should create a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/perl to the real location.

Assuming the Solaris package install completes successfully, you will be able to log in to Webmin immediately. Open a web browser, and go to the URL http://localhost:10000/ if you are running the browser on the same Linux system on which Webmin was installed, or http://your-systems-hostname:10000/ if the browser is being run on another PC. Either way, a web form will appear prompting for a username and password, as shown in Figure 2.1.

You should be able to login as root, using the same password as the root UNIX user on your Solaris system. If you change the UNIX root password down the road, however, the Webmin root user will not change. This is because the package install just copies the current password from the /etc/shadow file.