Users and roles

Like most DBMSes Lyftron uses users and roles for access management. Permissions can be assigned on a per-user or per-role basis.

Any number of users can be assigned to a single role.

The following chapter describes the user, role and permission management.

User management

This section can be found under Administer -> User management:

Lyftron comes with a few predefined user accounts:

Account name	Description
admin	The default administrative account
spark	The default account used for reverse Spark connections (see: Spark management)
BUILTIN\Administrators	Default Windows Administrators group mapping
system (hidden)	The default system account used by Lyftron

A new user can created using the Add user button:

The following table summarizes the fields:

Field name	Description
Login	The name of the account. If using Windows Authentication, the format should be DOMAIN\account
Integrated authentication	Enabled Integrated Windows Authentication. Disables password
Password	Account password when using SQL authentication
Confirm password	Retype password
First name	Optional: user's first name
Last name	Optional: user's last name
User type	Type of the account: Regular - standard account, Spark reverse account - see: Spark management, System - reserved for system account - do not use
Disabled	Disabled accounts will not be rejected on authentication

The next screen allows assigning the account to Roles. Every account must be assigned at least to public role.

Once defined, you can use the Global access rights functionality to define the actual permissions for the given user.

Role management

This section can be found under Administer -> Role management:

Lyftron comes with several predefined roles:

Role name	Description
datareader	Members of the datareader built-in server role can query any table in any database
dbcreator	Members of the dbcreator built-in server role can create new databases and connections
public	Default role assigned to all users, any rights granted to the public role are granted to all current and future users
securityadmin	Members of the securityadmin built-in server role manage logins and their properties
sysadmin	Members of the sysadmin built-in server role can perform any activity in the server.
viewer	Members of the viewer built-in server role can see any table in any database but cannot query or modify data

A new role can created using the Add role button:

The two required fields don't require much comment.

The subsequent screen allows adding any existing user to the newly created role.

Once defined, you can use the Global access rights functionality to define the actual permissions for the given role.