Permissions & roles
Portainer makes a fundamental distinction between admins and users.
A user in the global admin group (key: config/_global/admin_group
) has full admin access to the dogu at all times.
In addition to this, two further roles can exist:
-
config/portainer/admin_group
: The group set there has admin permissions in Portainer (Admin)- If the key is not set, users in the
portainer_admins
group automatically receive this authorization.
- If the key is not set, users in the
-
config/portainer/user_group
: The group set there has normal user permissions in Portainer (User)- If the key is not set, users in the
portainer_users
group automatically receive this authorization.
- If the key is not set, users in the
Users who are in none of the mentioned groups are not allowed to access Portainer.