Manage team permissions

Give people exactly the access they need, no more, no less. A guide to setting up roles and permissions.

Tutorial

Tutorial

The right access, nothing more

Good permissions are invisible until the day they save you.

Define roles that match how your team works and assign them in a click, so each person sees what they should and sensitive actions stay in the right hands.

How to keep access tidy

Roles, not one-offs

Group permissions so access is a single, clear choice.

Least privilege

Everyone gets exactly what their job needs, nothing more.

Easy to change

Grant or revoke access in one place as teams shift.

The principle

Give exactly the access needed, no more

Over-permissioning is a risk you don't see until it bites.

It's tempting to hand out broad access to avoid being asked twice, but every extra permission is a door left open. The goal is least privilege: each person can do their job and nothing beyond it.

This guide sets up roles that map to how your team actually works, so granting the right access is a single choice, and revoking it is just as simple.

Highlights

How it works

Roles

Group permissions sensibly.

One-click assign

Give access in a moment.

Least privilege

Only what each person needs.

Before you start

Roles are a vocabulary, keep it small

Aim for five or six roles that match how people actually work: admin, manager, member, finance, viewer, guest. When the list grows past what fits on one screen, permissions stop being managed and start being archaeology.

Grant by group, not by person. Individual grants are how systems rot, the account that still has finance access two jobs later is always a personal favor someone forgot. Groups make joiners, movers and leavers a single membership change.

Schedule a quarterly fifteen-minute review of two lists: who holds admin, and which guests are still active. Those two lists are where real risk accumulates, and a calendar invite is cheaper than an incident review.

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