Manage users and roles¶

Administrators can manage users and their permissions as follows:

• onboard new users and view pending invitations

• manage existing users

To navigate to User Management¶

1. From the Management Portal, go to the Manager menu.

2. Click User management.

   The User Management screen loads:

   

Onboard new users¶

In order to onboard new users to Lightrun, you need to invite them first. Once they join the organization's account, you can them give them the relevant permissions.

To create a new user¶

1. Navigate to the User Management screen.

2. Choose:

   

   The following window loads:

   

3. You can invite a single or multiple users as follows:

   • Invite a single user on the fly: copy the invitation link and send it to the user in a secure manner of your choice
   • Invite a single or multiple users by mail: insert email addresses separated by commas and then click Send
   • Create a single user from the management screen as described in the next section, and then send credentials to that user

4. View the list of invitations not yet accepted from the Pending Invites section.

5. Once the user receives the invitation, by mail or on-the-fly, they click the link they receive and are re-directed to a registration page:

   

6. The user should complete the registration information and click Register.

   Once the user registers, they can log in and access basic user screens.

   Additionally, they now appear in the Users Management list.

   

   You can now further refine their permissions.

Manage existing users¶

Administrators can create, edit and remove users and their permissions. The following roles can be awarded to users:

• Manager - additional capabilities enabling server and user management, such as creating and removing users, clearing exceptions and the like.

• Ignore quota - permissions to ignore the system quota; the quota controls use of CPU, Networking, Memory, excessively long strings, too many instructions printing out, protection from infinite loops and the like

• Set value - permissions to insert actions with functions and other methods that might change values in the code

• User - standard permissions to insert actions and view resulting data

To create a new user¶

1. Navigate to the User Management screen.

2. Click Create new user.

   The Edit User window pops up with empty fields.

3. Complete the fields with relevant details.

   

4. To enable the user immediately, toggle the Activated button to green.

5. Add permissions from the User Roles window: click on the relevant role. To add multiple roles, press CTRL, and then click on the relevant roles.

To view user details¶

You can view the permissions and details that were entered for a user when created or modified, as well as the creation and modification details.

1. Navigate to the User Management screen.

2. From the row for the relevant user click .

   The User details window pops up.

To edit existing users¶

1. Navigate to the User Management screen.

2. From the row for the relevant user click .

   The Edit User window pops up with empty fields.

3. Complete the fields with relevant details.

   

4. To activate or deactivate the user, toggle the Activated button to green.

5. Add or remove permissions from the User Roles window: click on the relevant role to add or remove it. To add multiple roles, press CTRL, and then click on the relevant roles.

To remove a user¶

1. Navigate to the User Management screen.

2. From the row for the relevant user, toggle the Active button to grey.

   The Delete icon now appears on the row.

3. Click .

   The Confirm window pops up:

   

4. When prompted, click Delete to remove the user.