44.16. Module Access Control
It can be very useful to give someone the rights to configure Squid without letting them harm or change anything else on the system. This can be done in Webmin by creating a Webmin user with access to the module and then restricting what he can do with it. Chapter 52 explains the general idea behind this kind of access control in more detail, while this section here covers restricting access to the Squid module in particular.
Some care is needed when restricting a user like this, however, as some features of the module could be used to modify files or execute commands with root privileges. For example, it is not a good idea to let an untrusted user change the cache directories, as setting / or /etc as a cache could ...
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