# User permissions

There is no specific page for application permissions. If you want to know about the existing ones, it must be through the user group detail page. Permissions defined in this version of **LIBSAFE** are:

| Permission                                                     | Descriptive name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Category                        | By areas?                                                               |
| -------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Ingestion- Create                                              | Create, start and restart ingestion jobs                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | User                            | Yes                                                                     |
| Ingestion - View                                               | View ingestion jobs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | User                            | Yes                                                                     |
| General  Catalog                                               | Catalog and general access to object detail                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | User                            | Yes                                                                     |
| Catalog – Advanced search                                      | Access to the catalog using advanced search functionality, including search by object groups                                                                                                                                                                    | User                            | Yes                                                                     |
| Audit                                                          | General access to audit functionality                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Preservation administrator      | No (all)                                                                |
| Retrieval                                                      | General access to retrieve functionality                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | User                            | Yes                                                                     |
| Preservation reports                                           | General access to preservation reports                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Preservation administrator      | No (all)                                                                |
| System reports                                                 | General access to system reports                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Evolution - Functionality                                      | Evolve dataformats, signatures and metadata schemas                                                                                                                                                                                                             | Preservation administrator      | Yes                                                                     |
| Configuration - Preservation                                   | Configure preservation basic data                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | Preservation administrator      | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Configuration - Storage                                        | Configure data storage and datamover functionality                                                                                                                                                                                                              | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Configuration - Users                                          | Configure users, user groups, and permissions                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Configuration – System tests                                   | Running of system tests                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Retrieval – Full repository retrieve                           | Retrieval of the complete repository in a single step                                                                                                                                                                                                           | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Configuration – Alerts and notifications                       | Create alerts and access all notifications                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Configuration - Advanced                                       | Access all advanced system configurations                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Wiki – Read access                                             | Access this LIBSAFE’s wiki in read mode                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | User                            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Wiki – Read and write access                                   | Access this LIBSAFE’s wiki in read and write mode                                                                                                                                                                                                               | Preservation administrator      | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Configuration - Alerts and  preservation notifications         | Configuration of alerts and  notifications related to preservation                                                                                                                                                                                              | Preservation administrator      | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Digital signature – General  Access to digital signature       | Create and visualize digital signature jobs                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Preservation administrator      | Yes                                                                     |
| Metadata – metadata updates                                    | Create and view metadata update jobs                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Preservation administrator      | No (all)                                                                |
| Database - Database management in read-only mode               | <p>Access to database management tool in read-only mode.</p><p>Warning: access to all preserved objects is allowed. The use of this tool will not be recorded in the activity log.</p>                                                                          | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Database – Database management with all the permissions        | <p>Access to database management tool with all the permissions.</p><p>Warning: access to all preserved objects is allowed; this tool is potentially destructive with no additional controls. The use of this tool will not be recorded in the activity log.</p> | System administrator            | No (not applicable)                                                     |
| Connectors – Create a connector                                | Access to the data transfer connectors tool in order to create new ones                                                                                                                                                                                         | Connectors – Create a connector | Access to the data transfer connectors tool in order to create new ones |
| Connectors – See connector                                     | Display the paragraph and content of system connectors                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Preservation administrator      | No (not applicable)                                                     |

