Configuring Roles

The Roles WebYaST module allows you to view and configure user roles. To create and configure roles and to assign users to roles, follow these steps:

  1. On the Assign Permissions tab, a table showing all available permissions and roles is shown. Permissions are in rows, roles in columns. You can click permissions to collapse or expand detailed permissions. You can collapse all permissions with Collapse all.

  2. To create a new role, click Create Role, enter its desired Name and click the Create Role button.

  3. Assign individual permissions to roles by checking them in the Assign Permissions table.

  4. On the Assign Users tab, you can assign users to specific roles. The role containers are in the left. The alphabetically sorted list of users is on the right. To assign a user to a specific role, drag the user name to be assigned from the right to a role container on the left. Users can have more than one role, in such a case, a user is granted union of all permissions granted by his roles.

    To remove user from a role, move the cursor over the user name in a role container and click the little cross.

    You can search for specific users in the list using the search bar in the header.

  5. Click Save to save the changes.

Changing User Rights

After user rights are changed in the role management you should logout and login again to ensure that all changes take effect.