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
In this recipe, we will create a Webmin group with access limited to viewing log files from the /var/log
directory:
To create a new Webmin group, navigate to Webmin | Webmin Users, and click Create a new Webmin group.
Name the new group
log_viewers
, and supply a group description.In the Available Webmin modules section, select...