What is RBAC?
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a policy-neutral access control mechanism defined around roles and privileges. The components of RBAC such as role-permissions, user-role and role-role relationships make it simple to perform user assignments. RBAC is a widely used access control model that is employed in various applications and systems.
RBAC is a powerful and flexible access control model that can be used to manage permissions in a system. It is a simple and scalable model that can be used to manage access control in a system. So, it is important to understand the key concepts of RBAC to effectively manage access control in a system.
Key Concepts
The key concepts of Role-Based Access Control are as follows:
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Role: A role is a collection of permissions that can be assigned to users. Roles are used to group users with similar access rights.
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Permission: A permission is a right to perform an operation on a resource. Permissions are assigned to roles.
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User: A user is an entity that can be assigned to one or more roles. Users are granted access rights based on the roles they are assigned.
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Resource: A resource is an object that a user wants to access. Resources in this case will be the API endpoints.
In RBAC, users are not assigned permissions directly. Instead, users are assigned to roles, and roles are assigned permissions.