Guide – How To Start – Webmin on Oracle 8 on Amazon

Configuration and connection to Webmin on Oracle 8

When starting the VM, the proxy server starts automatically.

1. To work, you should open TCP 10000 and UDP 10000 in the network properties of the Amazon firewall. 

2. Connecting to the VM using the PuTTY application. You can download it at the following link – Download

• Go to section SSH on the left panel, and then to Auth

• In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.

• Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM, and click “Open”.

• In the opened console, you will need to enter the login ec2-user.

3. Run the command to get the password for the root user:

sudo cat /root/cred.txt

Connecting to Webmin

1. In your browser, enter https://ip:10000. For example https://11.22.123.123:10000
2. When you go to the address, you will need to accept a self-signed certificate, for this, click the “Advanced” button and then “Proceed to “vm_ip”

3. The authorization page will open. 

Enter username “root” and password received in step 3 in the fields.

4. In order to change the Username and Password, you need to click the “root” button.

5. For a change, follow the steps:

1) in the “Username” field – enter your nickname;

2) In the “Password” field, choose “Set to”;

3) Enter a new password;

4) Click the “Save” button.

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