Admin: Group or Role

[Target audience: administrators]

Admin: Group or Role?

Within the GSRS Admin panel, there is a tab for user management that allows you to create new users as well as change the privileges of existing users.

It is possible to assign the 'Admin' role to a user and/or make the user a member of a predefined group called 'admin.'

Which do you use?

For the most part, you want to use the Admin role. This allows a user to access the admin panel as well as perform some registration operations that are reserved for administrative users. (For example, admins can override complete duplicate warnings, which appear as errors to most users.)

Groups within GSRS are basically reserved for future use.

One exception is the group called 'sysadmin.' Adding a user to sysadmin allows the person to log in and work on the system when it is undergoing a reindexing operation. (In general, you don't want users on the system during reindexing, since most operations are very slow.)