WSO2 Governance Registry allows managing users and their roles. A user is associated with one or more roles (generally specified at user creation time) and each role is associated with zero or more permissions (generally specified at role creation time). Therefore the set of permissions owned by a user is determined by the roles assigned to that user. If a user has several assigned roles, their permissions are added together.
By default, Governance Registry comes with the following roles:
- Admin - Provides full access to all the features and controls in the ESB. By default the user "admin" is assigned to both the "Admin" and the "Everyone" roles.
- Everyone - Every new user is assigned to this role by default. It does not include any permissions.
- System - This role is not visible in the Management Console.
Note
The Governance Registry UI does not allow configuring the permissions assigned to the "Admin" role.
The permission model of WSO2 Governance Registry is hierarchical. They can be assigned to the role in a fine grained or a coarse grained manner.
"Read/Write" and "Read Only" Modes
The User Management of the WSO2 Carbon allows to facilitate user accounts and roles at different levels.
The User Store of Carbon products can be configured to operate in one of the following modes, which determine the functionality.
Modes of operation:
- Read/write - This mode allows the user to modify the User Store.
- Read only - This mode prevents the user from changing any data in the User Store.
If the User Store is operating in "Read/Write" mode, the user can:
- Add, modify or remove user accounts
- Reset user passwords
- Manage user roles
- Build "import users" from other User Stores
If the User Store is operating in "Read Only" mode, the user can:
- View user accounts
Note
WSO2 Carbon maintains roles and permissions in the Carbon database, but it can read users/roles from the configured User Store.
For the detailed information on configuring users, roles and permissions, see the following pages: