Managing Users and Permissions
An administrator manages users and permissions. Permissions determine which users can perform which actions in Big Data Studio, such as create notebooks, clone and export notebooks, create graphs, and so on. An administrator creates users and assigns permissions to them.
Creating and Deleting Users
Big Data Studio users cannot be created or deleted from the user interface. An administrator must perform these tasks manually from the command line.
To perform this action, you must have access rights on the cluster through the operating system.
To create and delete a user:
After a user is created, the user is listed on the Permissions page in the Big Data Studio web UI. An administrator uses this page to configure permissions that determine what the user can and cannot do in the application. See Configuring Permissions for Users.
Configuring Permissions for Users
An administrator configures permissions for Big Data Studio users. Permissions are configured by adding a user to a group and setting permissions for the group. Users inherit the permissions of all groups they're in.
Note the following regarding roles:
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The admin user (
datastudio
) is automatically assigned theadmin
role. The admin user is created by default, and can create other admin users. -
Users can be created with either the
admin
role or theuser
role. Theguest
role is not used in this release. -
Role assignments can't be changed for any user. There's no need to create new roles because you won't be able to assign the new role to a user.
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Roles are preconfigured with default permissions. You can change the permissions associated with each role by selecting or deselecting the desired permissions and saving your changes. Note that group permissions override role permissions.
To configure permissions for a user: