52.1. Introduction to Webmin Users, Groups, and Permissions
A standard, out-of-the-box Webmin installation has only one user (called root or admin) who can use every feature of every module. On a home or office system used by just one person, that is all you need. Even if your system has multiple users, there may be only one who needs to perform system administration tasks.
There are, however, many situations in which the administrator may want to give some people access to a subset of Webmin's features. For example, you may have a person in your organization whose job it is to create and edit DNS zones and records. On a normal UNIX system, this person would have to be given root access so that he can edit the zone files and restart the DNS server ...
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