Users, Groups, and Access control [VC 21.3.1 GEN]

The user management system in Vidispine consists of users, groups, and roles.

• Roles are special groups, which cannot be added or deleted via the API.

• Regular groups and users can be added or deleted via the API.

• Users can belong to any number of groups or roles.

• Groups can depend on any number of groups or roles, although cyclic dependencies are not allowed.

• Roles cannot depend on any group or role.

To manage users and groups, see the Users and Groups and roles sections in the API reference.

• Example
• Access control for items, libraries, collections
  • Overview
  • Access levels
  • Priority
  • Revoking access
  • Operation
• Access control for metadata fields
  • Permission levels
• User authentication
  • Run-As option
  • Token authentication
  • Use access keys
  • Apache Shiro Integration
• LDAP
  • User authentication
  • User and group synchronization
  • Troubleshooting