Roles help define WHICH USERS can do WHAT. So – an ADMIN is a super ROLE – wherein all users belonging this ROLE, can do things that regular users cannot. A GUEST ROLE would be the polar opposite of an ADMIN role – with severely restricted capabilities.

To begin with, your app should think about just these two roles – GUEST and ADMIN.  The GUEST role can simply VIEW data – and not perform any updates, inserts etc. Typically, a web app allows users to edit their own profiles and/or edit/update SOME data , though not ALL data. To accommodate this intermediate ROLE, you can define a MEMBERS ROLE. A user in/with the member role would be able to do more than a GUEST but far less than an ADMIN.  Finally, an ADMIN role would allow admin users to edit, create , update all user data. To begin with,  you do not need really need more than these 3 levels or authorization roles.

Some applications may define a REPORTING ROLE  – for users who are allowed to run reports.

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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