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Users and roles

Last modified: 15 May 2024

Different databases use concepts of users and roles to manage the permissions in your databases. Both of them are used for access control and define a set of permissions. In some databases, a role can be a user that has the login right.

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Settings in the Create and Modify dialogs vary depending on the database vendor. Consult with the documentation of your database vendor for the list of settings and what type of concept the database uses for access control.

Users and roles ( User and Role) can be found in the Database Explorer under Server Objects. For the reference on other node and object icons, refer to the Data sources and their elements chapter of Database Explorer topic.

Users and roles in Database Explorer

Users and roles are not supported for the following database vendors: BigQuery, Couchbase Query, HSQLDB, MongoDB, Redis.

Create a user or a role

  1. In the Database Explorer ( View | Tool Windows | Database Explorer) , right-click a data source node and navigate to New | User or New | Role.

    For some databases, you need to specify a database where you want to create a role or a user. In this case, you must expand the data source tree to the database node, right-click the database node and select New | User or New | Role.

  2. In the Create dialog that opens, enter the name of your user or role in the Name field.

  3. Select and specify the necessary database settings.

  4. In the Preview pane, you can view and change the generated SQL code.

  5. Click OK to add your user role.

Create a user

Grant permissions

You can grant a user and a role permissions for database objects.

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For other database objects, you can configure the permissions that each grantee has for the object, and the list of grantees. To do that, open the Modify dialog for the object and use the Grants pane.

  1. In the Database Explorer ( View | Tool Windows | Database Explorer) , right-click a user or a role and select Modify Role.

  2. In the Grants pane of the Modify dialog, click the Add button (the Add icon).

    You can use auto-completion for database objects.

  3. Click the grant field, from the drop-down near each permission, select Grant or Grant with option. The Grant with option permission means that a user can grant to or revoke from other users those permissions.

    GRANT permissions for users