Permissions

Permissions for resources within PowerShell Universal

PowerShell Universal leverages permissions throughout the platform to provide fine-grained authorization against different scopes and resources. Built-in roles have a read-only set of permissions that are automatically applied to users with those roles. Custom roles can have custom permissions set. Additionally, individual users can have their own set of permissions.

Permissions are stored in the database and not as part of the .universal configuration files.

Permission Identifiers

Each permission uses an identifier to authorize a user to access a resource. They are strings that utilize the scope and resource type, followed by an access type.

For example, the following would provide read access to all API features.

apis/read

Wildcards can be used in permission identifiers to include sub-scopes over multiple access types. The following provides access to all script features.

automation.scripts/*

Managing Permissions

Permissions can be managed for an identity by clicking Security \ Permissions. You can select the identity and define a permission identifier to grant to the identity. This will blend with the permissions granted by any role assignments they may have.

Roles currently cannot be assigned permissions in the permission UI.

Example: Assigning a Script to a Role

You can assign a specific script to a user by accessing the permission dialog for the script. Click the Permissions icon.

Permission Icon

Next, click Create Permission. This will display the Creat Permission dialog. This dialog allows you to select the identity or role to assign the script to and the access you'd like to permit.

Permission Editor

The user now has access to execute the script. In order to view it within the admin console, you will also need to grant access to the pages necessary to do so.

Click Security \ Permissions. Click Create Permission. Assign the View access to automation.scripts and automation to the role.

View Role

The resulting permissions should look like this.

Example: Scheduler Role

In this example, we'll define a role that can only manage schedules.

First, create a role name Scheduler. This can be done in the Admin Console by clicking Security \ Roles and then Create New Role. Set the role name and click Ok.

Next, define the following permission for the role. Click the Properties button on the Scheduler role. This grants full access to scheduling and read access to automation.

• automation.schedules/*

• automation/read

• automation/view

The resulting role definition is below.

New-PSURole -Name "Scheduler" -Permission @('automation.schedules/*', 'automation/read') 

Finally, assign the role to a user. You can do so statically, with a policy script or via role to claim mapping.

Assigned Role

Default Role Permissions

Below are the default role permissions.

Administrator

Identifier	Description
*	Full access to PowerShell Universal

Operator

Identifier	Description
apis/*	Full access to APIs.
automation/*	Full access to automation features.
apps/*	Full access to Apps.
platform/*	Full access to platform features
settings/*	Full access to platform features

Execute

Identifier	Description
apis/read	Read access to APIs
apis/execute	Execute access to APIs
automation/read	Read access to automation features.
automation/execute	Execute access to automation features.
apps/read	Read access to Apps.
apps/execute	Execute access to Apps.
platform/read	Read access to platform features.
settings/read	Read access to settings.

Reader

Identifier	Description
apis/read	Read access to APIs.
apps/read	Read access to Apps.
automation/read	Read access to automation features.

API Editor

Identifier	Description
apis/*	All access to APIs.

API Reader

Identifier	Description
apis/read	Read access to APIs.

App Editor

Identifier	Description
apps/*	All access to apps.

App Reader

apps/read	Read access to apps.