Re: ACL Programming

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Marco Rebsamen wrote:
> 
> I search more information about the ACL Programming for a webmin modul.
> I've read the "Writing Webmin Modules" Document on webmin.com but it sill 
> can't figure out how it works!

Basically, the get_module_acl function returns a hash contain values
from the /etc/webmin/<modulename>/<username>.acl , or the defaultacl in the 
module CGI programs directory if the .acl file does not exist. The .acl files 
for users are created using the Webmin Users module, using forms in the 
acl_security.pl script in the module directory. This script must contain two 
perl functions :

acl_security_form which takes a hash referernce to existing ACL variables for 
the user as a parameter and must output HTML for a form for editing them.

acl_security_save which takes the same hash refererence as a parameter, but must 
set the values in it based on the form inputs (available in %in).

Finally, module CGI programs should contain code like :

%access = get_module_acl();
if ($access{'canedit'}) {
	# Allow the user to edit something ..
	}

  - Jamie