User and Role management is a mess

1. What is user and role management?
2. Can a user have multiple roles?
3. What are user roles and permissions?
4. What are user roles?

What is user and role management?

User role and access management—sometimes also referred to as user permissioning--is a way for administrators to define what kind of access to resources such as files, applications, and systems a user has.

Can a user have multiple roles?

You can assign more than one role to a user. However, some restrictions apply when multiple roles are assigned to a user. When a user is assigned multiple roles, the permissions that a user has is the combined permissions of all the roles that the user has.

What are user roles and permissions?

Roles provide a way for community administrators to group permissions and assign them to users or user groups. Permissions define the actions that a user can perform in a community. When they assign roles, community administrators consider the tasks of a user in the context of a particular community.

What are user roles?

A user role is a predefined category that can be assigned to users on the basis of their job title or some other criteria. Roles are typically used to present customized versions, or views, of a form template to different types of users.