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

43.17. Module Access Control

As Chapter 52 explains, once a Webmin user has been granted access to a module he can be further restricted to only a subset of its functions. For the Samba module, you can allow a user to edit only certain types of settings in certain shares while denying him the ability to create new shares or edit global options. This can be useful if you want to let someone edit the settings that apply to the sharing of only his own directory, while protecting the rest of the Samba server's configuration.

I would advise against granting even limited access to this module to untrusted users, however, as it has many features that could be used by a malicious user to gain root access to your system. For example, someone could allow ...