52.6. Creating and Editing Webmin Groups

If you want to create a large number of users who will all have access to the same modules with the same access control options, the best solution is to create a Webmin group. Like users, groups have access to a subset of the available Webmin modules and have access control permissions in those modules. If you change the available modules or permissions for a group, those of all member users will change as well.

A group can itself be a member of another group, from which it will inherit all allowed modules and access control settings. If the parent group is changed in any way, those changes will flow through to all member groups and their member users. There is no limit to the number of levels of group ...

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