Webmin is an excellent browser interface to handle most of your system services. Even if you use your machine only as a workstation (not as a server), it is worthwhile to install Webmin.

make sure the universe repository is uncommented in /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get install libnet-ssleay-perl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
sudo dpkg –install webmin_1.350_all.deb

Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://yourmachinename:10000/ as any user who can use sudo to run commands as root.

• http://www.webmin.com/udeb.html
• http://www.debianadmin.com/latest-webmin-installation-review.html