Commit fd382a55 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'doc-refactor-permissions' into 'master'

Refactor permissions.md

- Move `permissions/permissions.md` to `user/permissions.md`
- Remove wrong assumptions about group visibility
- Merge CI `ci/permissions/README.md` to `user/permissions.md`

## What are the relevant issue numbers?

Resolves https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19414

See merge request !5210
parents 158786ca 461feb3d
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- [Importing and exporting projects between instances](user/project/settings/import_export.md).
- [Markdown](markdown/markdown.md) GitLab's advanced formatting system.
- [Migrating from SVN](workflow/importing/migrating_from_svn.md) Convert a SVN repository to Git and GitLab.
- [Permissions](permissions/permissions.md) Learn what each role in a project (external/guest/reporter/developer/master/owner) can do.
- [Permissions](user/permissions.md) Learn what each role in a project (external/guest/reporter/developer/master/owner) can do.
- [Profile Settings](profile/README.md)
- [Project Services](project_services/project_services.md) Integrate a project with external services, such as CI and chat.
- [Public access](public_access/public_access.md) Learn how you can allow public and internal access to projects.
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- [Use SSH keys in your build environment](ssh_keys/README.md)
- [Trigger builds through the API](triggers/README.md)
- [Build artifacts](build_artifacts/README.md)
- [User permissions](permissions/README.md)
- [User permissions](../user/permissions.md#gitlab-ci)
- [API](../api/ci/README.md)
- [CI services (linked docker containers)](services/README.md)
# Users Permissions
GitLab CI relies on user's role on the GitLab. There are three permissions levels on GitLab CI: admin, master, developer, other.
Admin user can perform any actions on GitLab CI in scope of instance and project. Also user with admin permission can use admin interface.
| Action | Guest, Reporter | Developer | Master | Admin |
|---------------------------------------|-----------------|-------------|----------|--------|
| See commits and builds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Retry or cancel build | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove project | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create project | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change project configuration | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add specific runners | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add shared runners | | | | ✓ |
| See events in the system | | | | ✓ |
| Admin interface | | | | ✓ |
This document was moved to [user/permissions.md](../../user/permissions.md#gitlab-ci).
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SAML login includes support for external groups. You can define in the SAML
settings which groups, to which your users belong in your IdP, you wish to be
marked as [external](../permissions/permissions.md).
marked as [external](../user/permissions.md).
### Requirements
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# Permissions
Users have different abilities depending on the access level they have in a particular group or project.
If a user is both in a project group and in the project itself, the highest permission level is used.
If a user is a GitLab administrator they receive all permissions.
On public and internal projects the Guest role is not enforced.
All users will be able to create issues, leave comments, and pull or download the project code.
To add or import a user, you can follow the [project users and members
documentation](../workflow/add-user/add-user.md).
## Project
| Action | Guest | Reporter | Developer | Master | Owner |
|---------------------------------------|---------|------------|-------------|----------|--------|
| Create new issue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leave comments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a list of builds | ✓ [^1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a build log | ✓ [^1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download and browse build artifacts | ✓ [^1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pull project code | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download project | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create code snippets | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage issue tracker | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage labels | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a commit status | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a container registry | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See environments | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage merge requests | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new merge request | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push to non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Force push to non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add tags | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Write a wiki | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cancel and retry builds | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create or update commit status | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Update a container registry | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove a container registry image | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new environments | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new milestones | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add new team members | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push to protected branches | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enable/disable branch protection | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turn on/off prot. branch push for devs| | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rewrite/remove git tags | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit project | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add deploy keys to project | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configure project hooks | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage runners | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage build triggers | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage variables | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete environments | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Switch visibility level | | | | | ✓ |
| Transfer project to another namespace | | | | | ✓ |
| Remove project | | | | | ✓ |
| Force push to protected branches [^2] | | | | | |
| Remove protected branches [^2] | | | | | |
[^1]: If **Allow guest to access builds** is enabled in CI settings
[^2]: Not allowed for Guest, Reporter, Developer, Master, or Owner
## Group
In order for a group to appear as public and be browsable, it must contain at
least one public project.
Any user can remove themselves from a group, unless they are the last Owner of the group.
| Action | Guest | Reporter | Developer | Master | Owner |
|-------------------------|-------|----------|-----------|--------|-------|
| Browse group | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit group | | | | | ✓ |
| Create project in group | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage group members | | | | | ✓ |
| Remove group | | | | | ✓ |
## External Users
In cases where it is desired that a user has access only to some internal or
private projects, there is the option of creating **External Users**. This
feature may be useful when for example a contractor is working on a given
project and should only have access to that project.
External users can only access projects to which they are explicitly granted
access, thus hiding all other internal or private ones from them. Access can be
granted by adding the user as member to the project or group.
They will, like usual users, receive a role in the project or group with all
the abilities that are mentioned in the table above. They cannot however create
groups or projects, and they have the same access as logged out users in all
other cases.
An administrator can flag a user as external [through the API](../api/users.md)
or by checking the checkbox on the admin panel. As an administrator, navigate
to **Admin > Users** to create a new user or edit an existing one. There, you
will find the option to flag the user as external.
By default new users are not set as external users. This behavior can be changed
by an administrator under **Admin > Application Settings**.
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This document was moved to [user/permissions.md](../user/permissions.md).
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They will also be listed on the public access directory (`/public`).
**Any logged in user** will have [Guest](../permissions/permissions.md)
**Any logged in user** will have [Guest](../user/permissions.md)
permissions on the repository.
### Internal projects
......@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Internal projects can be cloned by any logged in user.
They will also be listed on the public access directory (`/public`) for logged
in users.
Any logged in user will have [Guest](../permissions/permissions.md) permissions
Any logged in user will have [Guest](../user/permissions.md) permissions
on the repository.
### How to change project visibility
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# Permissions
Users have different abilities depending on the access level they have in a
particular group or project. If a user is both in a group's project and the
project itself, the highest permission level is used.
On public and internal projects the Guest role is not enforced. All users will
be able to create issues, leave comments, and pull or download the project code.
GitLab administrators receive all permissions.
To add or import a user, you can follow the [project users and members
documentation](../workflow/add-user/add-user.md).
## Project
The following table depicts the various user permission levels in a project.
| Action | Guest | Reporter | Developer | Master | Owner |
|---------------------------------------|---------|------------|-------------|----------|--------|
| Create new issue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leave comments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a list of builds | ✓ [^1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a build log | ✓ [^1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download and browse build artifacts | ✓ [^1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pull project code | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download project | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create code snippets | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage issue tracker | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage labels | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a commit status | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See a container registry | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See environments | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage/Accept merge requests | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new merge request | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push to non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Force push to non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add tags | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Write a wiki | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cancel and retry builds | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create or update commit status | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Update a container registry | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove a container registry image | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new environments | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new milestones | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add new team members | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push to protected branches | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enable/disable branch protection | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turn on/off protected branch push for devs| | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rewrite/remove Git tags | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit project | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add deploy keys to project | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configure project hooks | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage runners | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage build triggers | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage variables | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete environments | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Switch visibility level | | | | | ✓ |
| Transfer project to another namespace | | | | | ✓ |
| Remove project | | | | | ✓ |
| Force push to protected branches [^2] | | | | | |
| Remove protected branches [^2] | | | | | |
[^1]: If **Allow guest to access builds** is enabled in CI settings
[^2]: Not allowed for Guest, Reporter, Developer, Master, or Owner
## Group
Any user can remove themselves from a group, unless they are the last Owner of
the group. The following table depicts the various user permission levels in a
group.
| Action | Guest | Reporter | Developer | Master | Owner |
|-------------------------|-------|----------|-----------|--------|-------|
| Browse group | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit group | | | | | ✓ |
| Create project in group | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage group members | | | | | ✓ |
| Remove group | | | | | ✓ |
## External Users
In cases where it is desired that a user has access only to some internal or
private projects, there is the option of creating **External Users**. This
feature may be useful when for example a contractor is working on a given
project and should only have access to that project.
External users can only access projects to which they are explicitly granted
access, thus hiding all other internal or private ones from them. Access can be
granted by adding the user as member to the project or group.
They will, like usual users, receive a role in the project or group with all
the abilities that are mentioned in the table above. They cannot however create
groups or projects, and they have the same access as logged out users in all
other cases.
An administrator can flag a user as external [through the API](../api/users.md)
or by checking the checkbox on the admin panel. As an administrator, navigate
to **Admin > Users** to create a new user or edit an existing one. There, you
will find the option to flag the user as external.
By default new users are not set as external users. This behavior can be changed
by an administrator under **Admin > Application Settings**.
## GitLab CI
GitLab CI permissions rely on the role the user has in GitLab. There are four
permission levels it total:
- admin
- master
- developer
- guest/reporter
The admin user can perform any action on GitLab CI in scope of the GitLab
instance and project. In addition, all admins can use the admin interface under
`/admin/runners`.
| Action | Guest, Reporter | Developer | Master | Admin |
|---------------------------------------|-----------------|-------------|----------|--------|
| See commits and builds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Retry or cancel build | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove project | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create project | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change project configuration | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add specific runners | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add shared runners | | | | ✓ |
| See events in the system | | | | ✓ |
| Admin interface | | | | ✓ |
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---
Select the user and the [permission level](../../permissions/permissions.md)
Select the user and the [permission level](../../user/permissions.md)
that you'd like to give the user. Note that you can select more than one user.
![Give user permissions](img/add_user_give_permissions.png)
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---
After the forking is done, you can start working on the newly created
repository. There, you will have full [Owner](../permissions/permissions.md)
repository. There, you will have full [Owner](../user/permissions.md)
access, so you can set it up as you please.
## Merging upstream
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You can make any branch a protected branch. GitLab makes the master branch a protected branch by default.
To protect a branch, user needs to have at least a Master permission level, see [permissions document](../permissions/permissions.md).
To protect a branch, user needs to have at least a Master permission level, see [permissions document](../user/permissions.md).
![protected branches page](protected_branches/protected_branches1.png)
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