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Go to the Team page to view and manage user accounts, the groups they are in, and the role they are assigned.
One of the unique benefits of the creative.space platform is the built-in authentication system, which offers enterprise-grade access control without relying on a third-party server like Active Directory.
Access is controlled at three levels:
- Users: Individual logins used to access storage and user interfaces.
- Groups: Simplifies assigning access permissions to storage for multiple users.
- Roles: Determines access to the user interfaces.
Users
In creative.space, a User is akin to a user account on your workstation, allowing login and access management.
Key Features
- Access Types: Users have two main access types:
- File Access - Users can be granted access to spaces, folders, and assets directly or through membership in a group.
- Interface Access - Assigned through roles like System Admin, Team Leader, etc.
- Functionalities: Users can be:
- Added to spaces for filesystem access.
- Included in groups to inherit group access.
- Assigned a roles to grand access to capabilities within user interfaces.
Understanding the Interface
- User Avatar: The profile image for the user account which appears throughout the web and desktop applications.
- Username: The name used to log in.
- User’s Name: The first and last name associated with the account.
- User’s Role: The single role the account has been assigned.
- Email: The address used for sending configuration files and (optionally) support notifications.
- Phone Number: A phone number that may be used for SMS notifications, such as support alerts.
- Connections: The current web and SMB connections by the User. Click on one of these will pop up the ‘Connected Users’ card with the user applied as a filter.
- Groups: Displays current membership and provides buttons to ‘+’ add or ‘x’ remove the user from ‘Groups’.
Groups
Groups in creative.space streamline access management by sharing space access among multiple users.
A group is somewhat like a user, since both can be added to spaces. However, the similarities end there:
- Groups can’t be used as a login.
- Groups can’t be used to authenticate access, but ARE used to authorize access.
- Groups can’t be assigned a role or used to control access to user interfaces.
So what can a group do? Why have groups at all?
A group can share the access it has with all the users you add to it. This makes it easy to give everyone on your team the access they need, no matter how many spaces you create, and how many users you add.
Without groups, you would need to individually add every user to every space they need to access. With groups, all you need to do is add groups to spaces, and then add the users to groups. The users automatically get access to all of the spaces that the groups can access. Even better, if you need to revoke a user's access to several spaces, all you need to do is remove them from the group that can access those spaces. Groups make it easy to manage who can access what.
Roles
Roles define the level of access a user has to the creative.space user interfaces and actions.
While groups determine who can access spaces, they do not determine who can access the node's management interface. That's the job of roles.
There are five different roles:
Role | Access Level |
Full control over system settings and management. | |
System performance and access monitoring. | |
Expanded access to manage spaces and teams, including the ability to control permissions for spaces they are members of, creating templates, and data recovery from snapshots. | |
Access to spaces in the web and desktop apps. | |
Access to only the Libraries interface in the web app. | |
SMB mounting only. No access to apps except for changing password. |
These roles have far-reaching privileges compared to other roles.
Give most of your users the Team Member role. Team Members can access and browse the ‘Spaces’ page, but are restricted from management features.
While even Team Members can delete or corrupt files, a System Admin or Team Leader can recover them using a snapshot. However, if spaces and/or snapshots are deleted entirely, you can never get the content back.
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