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Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

By : Michal Karzynski
Book Image

Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

By: Michal Karzynski

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Webmin Administrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a Webmin group with access to specific modules and options


Webmin users should be organized into groups. If you have more then one user whom you would like to equip with the same privileges, creating a group is the way to go. Webmin provides very granular permissions, which you can grant to each group. You can set the following three types of permissions:

  • Specify which Webmin modules are available to a group

  • Set global permissions, which apply to all modules

  • Set module-level access control settings, specifying which options of each module will be available

    Tip

    Permissions for an individual account can be configured with the same level of granularity.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will create a Webmin group with access limited to viewing log files from the /var/log directory:

  1. To create a new Webmin group, navigate to Webmin | Webmin Users, and click Create a new Webmin group.

  2. Name the new group log_viewers, and supply a group description.

  3. In the Available Webmin modules section, select...