Security

Delete the roles power and user

reed_kelly
Contributor

I define specific roles for each team. I don't particularly see a use for the Power or User roles. In fact, I find it annoying that "power" is added to app modify rights, by default. Are there any side effects of deleting these two roles to prevent their accidental use?

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sduff_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

In general, most other roles will inherit the permissions and capabilities from the user role (some elevated roles would use power), so I would strongly advise against removing the user and power roles.

reed_kelly
Contributor

I specifically create new base roles to inherit from. For example, I create a base_user with no data access and some basic search capabilities. I also create a base_dev role with additional capabilities for editing dashboards and scheduling searches. My goal is to lock down access to "least required" by each team to meet audit guidelines. I am not seeing any inherited features of user or power in my other roles. Are there any hidden attributes that are inherited from user or power?

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