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Webmin Administrator's Cookbook

You're reading from   Webmin Administrator's Cookbook Over 100 recipes to leverage the features of Webmin and master the art of administering your web or database servers.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849515849
Length 376 pages
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Michal Karzynski Michal Karzynski
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Webmin Administrator's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Setting Up Your System FREE CHAPTER 2. User Management 3. Securing Your System 4. Controlling Your System 5. Monitoring Your System 6. Managing Files on Your System 7. Backing Up Your System 8. Running an Apache Web Server 9. Running a MySQL Database Server 10. Running a PostgreSQL Database Server 11. Running Web Applications 12. Setting Up an E-mail Server Index

Creating and editing a system group


Creating and editing system groups through Webmin is very simple; just follow the steps outlined.

How to do it...

Let's start by creating a group as follows:

  1. Navigate to System | Users and Groups, and click through to the Local Groups tab.

  2. Click Create a new group.

  3. On the next page, you will be asked to specify basic group information. Set Group name to a chosen name, and leave Group ID set to Automatic. Ignore the password fields.

  4. You can now add any user you choose to the group by moving them from the left to the right column of the Users widget.

  5. Click Create to finish and create the group.

You can now edit the group by performing the following steps:

  1. Go back to System | Users and Groups, and click the Local Groups tab.

  2. Click the group's link in the Group name column.

  3. You will be brought to a screen with a form similar to the one used to create a group, with one difference. If you now change a group's ID, you can tell Webmin to update files on the system with the...

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