Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development

25.5. Module Access Control

The access control options in the Custom Commands module are designed to allow a master Webmin user to give some other users the rights to run selected commands, but not edit or create them. From a security point of view, it makes no sense to give an untrusted user permissions to create his own custom commands because that would allow him to run any command as root and so compromise the security of the entire system. Similarly, you can restrict the file editors that a Webmin user can use, and prevent him from creating new editors.

Once you have created a user or group with access to the Custom Commands module (as explained in Chapter 52), the steps to follow to limit his access are:

1.	In the Webmin Users module, ...