30.16. Module Access Control

Like others, the BIND DNS Server module allows you to control which of its features are available to a particular Webmin user or group. This can be useful for giving people the rights to manage only records in their own zones and nobody else's. Even though this would normally require root access to the records files, with Webmin it can be granted to people without giving them level of power that a root login would allow.

Once you have created a user with access to the module as explained in Chapter 52, the steps to limit his access to only certain zones are:

1.
Click on the BIND DNS Server next to the name of the user in the Webmin Users module. This will bring up a page of access control options.
2.
Change the

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