Users

the users section allows you to create and manage user access in litmus edge relationship of roles, groups, and users litmus edge incorporates a role based access control (rbac) to customize user permission settings in the form of three distinct components roles each role has a collection of customizable permissions roles are added to groups and determine the permissions groups have see role permissions docid 9natihz28iwplmuqgm6rb for details groups a group is made up of one or more roles the roles in a group determine the permissions for the group users accounts that will be assigned to groups the one or more groups a user is assigned to determines the roles and permissions the user has working together, a role determines the permission settings a group will have a group will contain one or more roles that determine its permissions a user will be assigned to a group where it will have access to litmus edge based on the group's one or more roles important the following properties should be kept in mind when adding/editing roles/groups/users a group can receive more than one role (and their respective permission settings) to a resource a user can be assigned to multiple groups if a user is not assigned to at least one group, they will not be able to log in to litmus edge in the case of conflicting permission settings as long as there is at least one role or group with permissions to a resource, regardless of how many other roles/groups that don't have it, users will receive that resource default roles, groups, and users by default, the following user management items are provisioned that can't be deleted roles administrator viewer groups administrators viewers user admin the system ensures that at least one user has the appropriate administrative permissions to manage roles, groups, and users default user permissions by default, every user has the permission to accept the litmus edge end user license (eula) when logging in the first time users can also access their user profile to view their current user permissions and change their password see manage your user profile docid\ dlgrrn0 n3t9eow8etxex for details learn more about role permissions docid 9natihz28iwplmuqgm6rb backup files and templates all role, group, and user configurations are included in backup files see backup/restore docid\ yngbydwn0krmfsyd 5j y and backup file contents and file management docid\ dusjybhg5sdk217frkvrs for more information in template files, only authentication providers are included in template configurations if you apply a template to a new edge device, you will need to map ldap groups manually see manage ldap providers docid\ r1 hg52gdrfvcchk9rdb5 for more information legacy user migration for litmus edge instances on version 3 2 and earlier, there were three possible roles observer, developer, and administrator when you upgrade to version 3 3 or later any administrator role is automatically provisioned to the administrators group with the group's respective permissions observer and developer roles are automatically provisioned to the viewers group with the group's respective permissions access users ui note you must have the appropriate permissions to manage roles, groups, and users by default, the first use r (admin user) provisioned in litmus edge has these user permissions from the litmus edge navigation panel, navigate to system > access control the users pane appears next steps add a role docid\ b3bo5 uql3c2mbg2gzv0 manage roles docid\ qh0rdkststmyzd2 ounp7 add a group docid\ lzvliaudepuyxckbct4 l manage groups docid\ frtfj fm6s98fhaza8u26 add a user docid\ yu0rqab3bq4mngwt6zmsx manage users docid atvzi1wfnzzwyhdketdz manage your user profile docid\ dlgrrn0 n3t9eow8etxex role permissions docid 9natihz28iwplmuqgm6rb