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title = "Permissions"
description = "Understand fine-grained access control permissions"
keywords = ["grafana", "fine-grained access-control", "roles", "permissions", "enterprise"]
weight = 115
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# Permissions

A permission is an action and a scope. When creating a fine-grained access control, consider what specific action a user should be allowed to perform, and on what resources (its scope).

To grant permissions to a user, you create a built-in role assignment to map a role to a built-in role. A built-in role assignment *modifies* to one of the existing built-in roles in Grafana (Viewer, Editor, Admin). For more information, refer to [Built-in role assignments]({{< relref "./roles.md#built-in-role-assignments" >}}).

To learn more about which permissions are used for which resources, refer to [Resources with fine-grained permissions]({{< relref "./_index.md#resources-with-fine-grained-permissions" >}}).

action
: The specific action on a resource defines what a user is allowed to perform if they have permission with the relevant action assigned to it.

scope
: The scope describes where an action can be performed, such as reading a specific user profile. In such case, a permission is associated with the scope `users:<userId>` to the relevant role.

## Action definitions

The following list contains fine-grained access control actions.

Actions | Applicable scopes | Descriptions
--- | --- | ---
`roles:list` | `roles:*` | List available roles without permissions.
`roles:read` | `roles:*` | Read a specific role with it's permissions.
`roles:write` | `permissions:delegate` | Create or update a custom role.
`roles:delete` | `permissions:delegate` | Delete a custom role.
`roles.builtin:list` | `roles:*` | List built-in role assignments.
`roles.builtin:add` | `permissions:delegate` | Create a built-in role assignment.
`roles.builtin:remove` | `permissions:delegate` | Delete a built-in role assignment.
`reports.admin:create` | `reports:*` | Create reports.
`reports.admin:write` | `reports:*` | Update reports.
`reports:delete` | `reports:*` | Delete reports.
`reports:read` | `reports:*` | List all available reports or get a specific report.
`reports:send` | `reports:*` | Send a report email.
`reports.settings:write` | n/a | Update report settings.
`reports.settings:read` | n/a | Read report settings.
`provisioning:reload` | `service:accesscontrol` | Reload provisioning files.
`users:read` | `global:users:*` | Read or search user profiles.
`users:write` | `global:users:*` | Update a user’s profile.
`users.teams:read` | `global:users:*` | Read a user’s teams.
`users.authtoken:list` | `global:users:*` | List authentication tokens that are assigned to a user.
`users.authtoken:update` | `global:users:*` | Update authentication tokens that are assigned to a user.
`users.password:update` | `global:users:*` | Update a user’s password.
`users:delete` | `global:users:*` | Delete a user.
`users:create` | n/a | Create a user.
`users:enable` | `global:users:*` | Enable a user.
`users:disable` | `global:users:*` | Disable a user.
`users.permissions:update` | `global:users:*` | Update a user’s organization-level permissions.
`users:logout` | `global:users:*` | Log out a user.
`users.quotas:list` | `global:users:*` | List a user’s quotas.
`users.quotas:update` | `global:users:*` | Update a user’s quotas.
`org.users.read` | `users:*` | Get user profiles within an organization.
`org.users.add` | `users:*` | Add a user to an organization.
`org.users.remove` | `users:*` | Remove a user from an organization.
`org.users.role:update` | `users:*` | Update the organization role (`Viewer`, `Editor`, `Admin`) for an organization.
`ldap.user:read` | n/a | Get a user via LDAP.
`ldap.user:sync` | n/a | Sync a user via LDAP.
`ldap.status:read` | n/a | Verify the LDAP servers’ availability.
`ldap.config:reload` | n/a | Reload the LDAP configuration.
`status:accesscontrol` | `service:accesscontrol` | Get access-control enabled status.
`settings:read` | `settings:**`<br>`settings:auth.saml:*`<br>`settings:auth.saml:enabled` (property level)  | Read settings
`settings:write` | `settings:**`<br>`settings:auth.saml:*`<br>`settings:auth.saml:enabled` (property level) | Update settings
`server.stats:read` | n/a | Read server stats

## Scope definitions

The following list contains fine-grained access control scopes.

Scopes | Descriptions
--- | ---
`roles:*` | Restrict an action to a set of roles. For example, `roles:*` matches any role, `roles:randomuid` matches only the role with UID `randomuid` and `roles:custom:reports:{editor,viewer}` matches both `custom:reports:editor` and `custom:reports:viewer` roles.
`permissions:delegate` | The scope is only applicable for roles associated with the Access Control itself and indicates that you can delegate your permissions only, or a subset of it, by creating a new role or making an assignment.
`reports:*` | Restrict an action to a set of reports. For example, `reports:*` matches any report and `reports:1` matches the report with id `1`.
`service:accesscontrol` | Restrict an action to target only the fine-grained access control service. For example, you can use this in conjunction with the `provisioning:reload` or the `status:accesscontrol` actions.
`global:users:*` | Restrict an action to a set of global users.
`users:*` | Restrict an action to a set of users from an organization.
`settings:**` | Restrict an action to a subset of settings. For example, `settings:**` matches all settings, `settings:auth.saml:*` matches all SAML settings, and `settings:auth.saml:enabled` matches the enable property on the SAML settings.