User Roles

A role is an identity with permissions that determine what the role can and cannot do in Wasabi. A role can be associated with any user who needs that identity. For example, “contract engineer” may be a role. If Mary, Bob, Jennifer, and John are associated with that role, they would share in the permissions defined for a “contract engineer.”

As a user, you might have permission to switch roles created within the current or another Wasabi account. In this way, you can switch to a role, use the Wasabi Management Console with permissions that you do not normally have, and then exit from the role to surrender the permissions. For example, switching to a might grant you access to resources typically not available to you. If you normally functions as a contract engineer, you might need to access schematic drawings and can switch to the “engineer-schematics” role to do so.

Roles are described in more detail in Roles.

Switching User Roles

1. Open the account sign-in drop-down and click Switch Role. The Switch User Role panel is displayed. If you are the Root User, you will see a panel such as the following:

   

2. Enter the account identification of the role you want to assume.
3. Enter name of the role you want to assume.
4. Enter a name to use for the role in this session.
5. Click UPDATE.

You have switched to the new role for the current session (until you switch roles again or log out).