29.21. Module Access Control
As Chapter 52 explains, you can use the Webmin Users module to give a user limited access to some modules. In the case of the Apache Webserver module, a Webmin user or group can be restricted so that he can only edit a subset of the available virtual servers. This can be very useful in a virtual hosting environment in which you want to give people the right to edit the settings for their own servers, but not those belonging to everyone else.
It is also possible to restrict the pages in the module that the user is allowed to edit, as some allow the setting of directives that could be used to subvert security on your system. For example, you would not want a user to be able to change the user and group as whom the CGI ...
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