Administrator restrictions: relating OMERO.webadmin to OMERO.server

Summary

OMERO allows you to create administrators with a subset of the full administrator privileges, see Administrators with restricted privileges. The OMERO.web user interface form for creation and editing of restricted administrators (see the Web Interface: Managing Users section) collates the server-side privileges into fewer options and gives the options user-friendly names. Here, the mapping of the OMERO.web options to the server-side privileges is given. The server-side privileges are more granular and direct work with them is possible on the CLI, as described in Adjusting administrator restrictions.

Map of the OMERO.web UI options to the server-side privileges

Option in OMERO.web	Server-side privilege(s)
Sudo	Sudo
Write data	WriteOwned, WriteFile, WriteManagedRepo
Delete data	DeleteOwned, DeleteFile, DeleteManagedRepo
Chgrp	Chgrp
Chown	Chown
Create and Edit groups	ModifyGroup
Create and Edit Users	ModifyUser
Add Users to Groups	ModifyGroupMembership
Upload Scripts	WriteScriptRepo, DeleteScriptRepo

Note

CLI lists restrictions, OMERO.web lists privileges The lists shown using CLI commands recommended in Adjusting administrator restrictions will be complementary lists to the ones which can be deduced from the table above.

Note

ReadSession privilege is never given to restricted admin In OMERO.web, you can never create an administrator with restricted privileges who has the “ReadSession” privilege.