Users and Permissions

Users in the FEWS NET Data Platform are defined as the primary principals for which access to the system is granted. A user in the system represents a person or an external system that needs to have access to data in the system.

A user group in the system is a collection of one or more users that have a common need to access a certain type of data available in the system.

A permission is defined as a right to perform a certain operation against a record of data in the system. For example, a permission may give a user the right to add new data into a data source document table, while a separate permission may give the user the right to delete a single row of data from a data source document table.

To learn more about:

• Managing individual users, groups, and permissions, see Users and User Groups.

• Assigning permissions to users and groups, see Categorization and Permissions.

• How the Data Warehouse authenticates users, see Authentication and Authorization.