openstack-manuals/doc/user-guide-admin/section_dashboard_admin_manage_roles.xml
Deepti Navale 429af4ba8d Included new section to 'Create and manage roles' in Admin User Guide
New section to the Admin User guide to 'Create and manage roles'
in the dashboard chapter.
Partial-Bug: #1279133

Change-Id: Icb3667a6a83d37a84f649d1e01171a3f569a4f2d
2014-03-25 09:16:07 +10:00

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<title>Create and manage roles</title>
<para>A role is a personality that a user assumes to perform a specific set
of operations. A role includes a set of rights and privileges. A user
assuming that role inherits those rights and privileges.</para>
<note>
<para>OpenStack Identity service defines a user's role on a project but it
is completely up to the individual service to define what that role means.
This is referred to as the service's policy. To get details about what the
privileges for each role are, refer to the <filename>policy.json</filename>
file available for each service in the
<filename>/etc/<replaceable>SERVICE</replaceable>/policy.json</filename>
file. For example, the policy defined for OpenStack Identity service is
defined in the <filename>/etc/keystone/policy.json</filename> file.
</para>
</note>
<section xml:id="create_role">
<title>Create a role</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the dashboard and choose the <guilabel>admin</guilabel>
project from the <guilabel>CURRENT PROJECT</guilabel> drop-down list.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>On the <guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab, click the <guilabel>Roles
</guilabel> category.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click the <guibutton>Create Role</guibutton> button.</para>
<para>In the <guilabel>Create Role</guilabel> window, enter a
name for the role.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click the <guibutton>Create Role</guibutton> button to confirm
your changes.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<section xml:id="edit_role">
<title>Edit a role</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the dashboard and choose the <guilabel>admin</guilabel>
project from the <guilabel>CURRENT PROJECT</guilabel> drop-down list.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>On the <guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab, click the <guilabel>Roles
</guilabel> category.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click the <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> button.</para>
<para>In the <guilabel>Update Role</guilabel> window, enter a new
name for the role.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Click the <guibutton>Update Role</guibutton> button to confirm
your changes.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
<note>
<para>Using the dashboard, you can edit only the name assigned to a role.</para>
</note>
</section>
<section xml:id="delete_role">
<title>Delete a role</title>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Log in to the dashboard and choose the <guilabel>admin</guilabel>
project from the <guilabel>CURRENT PROJECT</guilabel> drop-down list.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>On the <guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab, click the <guilabel>Roles
</guilabel> category.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Select the role you want to delete and click the <guibutton>Delete
Roles</guibutton> button.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
</section>