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 nesting that you can create.

To create a new group, follow these steps:

1.
On the Webmin Users module main page, click on the Create a new Webmin group link near the bottom of the page under the Webmin Groups section. This will take you to the group creation form shown in Figure 52.4.

Figure 52.4. The Webmin group creation form.


2.
Fill in the Group name field with a unique name that is not used by any other existing user or group.

3.
To make this new group a member of an existing one, select it from the Member of group menu.

4.
Select all the modules to which you want members of this group to have access from the Members' modules list. Those from any parent group will be automatically included.

5.
Click the Save button to have the new group created, and your browser will return to the module's main page.

6.
Configure access control settings for members of the group by clicking on module names next to the group name on the main page, as described in Section 52.5 “Editing Module Access Control”.

7.
You can now create new Webmin users or edit existing ones to become members of the new group.

Once a group has been created, it can be edited by clicking on its name from the table under Webmin Groups on the module's main page. This will take you to the group editing form on which you can change any of its attributes before applying them with the Save button. Or you can delete the group altogether with the Delete button, as long as it does not have any member users or groups.

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