How can I allow specific Unix users (based on unix groups) to login to Webmin?

[Stephen O. <sol...@ho...>]

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 06:46, Stephen Ollinger wrote:
>I have read FAQ #24 (How can I allow any Unix user to login to Webmin?) and 
>would like to know who to do the following:
>
>In the Webmin Users module, I would create a user called staffunixer.  I 
>would give this webmin user access to the modules that I would want all my 
>Unix users in the 'staff' unix group to have access to.  Whenever a user 
>logs into webmin using their unix account username and password, webmin 
>would give them the modules that I setup for staffunixer if they belong to 
>the unix group 'staff'.  This would allow me to create unix users and put 
>add them into the unix group that would give them the right webmin modules. 
>  I wouldn't have to create specific webmin users for each user I wanted to 
>give access to webmin.
>
>Hope that makes sense.  Basically my question is :
>
>How can I allow specific Unix users based on specific Unix groups to login 
>to Webmin without creating specific Webmin users for each user?

>>This is not currently possible in Webmin unfortunately .. only a single
>>Unix authentication user can exist. Usermin gives you more flexibility
>>in controlling which Unix users a Webmin user can access, but it's
modules are of course different ..

>>- Jamie


Jamie:

If this is not possible then how do I add webmin users from the command 
line?  I followed the last instructions from the FAQ but it does work.  Here 
is my process:

I add a linux user web3 with a password
I edit miniserv.users and add the line web3:x:0::
I edit the webmin.acl and add the line web3: quota ... extra modules etc

I can't login with web3. If I go in with an admin account and edit web3 user 
and just save the info it will then work.  How do I get this to work so I 
add users through a command line script?

I have tried adding a line in config too (web3: quota)

This would do the same thing.

Stephen.




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