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Password policy
FlowForce Servers uses password policies to help administrators manage the complexity of user passwords. A password policy is a set of minimum requirements that a user password must meet in order to be valid (for example, at least N characters long).
Permission
Permissions control user access to containers. Like privileges, permissions can be granted both to users and to roles. Therefore, if a user is a part of a role, any permissions granted to the role will automatically apply to the user as well.
By default, permissions set on a container are inherited from the parent container. For example, let's assume that container A has a child container B. Users who have permission to access container A will have by default permission to access container B as well. However, an administrator can redefine the permissions of any user or role at every level of the container hierarchy.
Privilege
Privileges define what users can do in FlowForce Server (for example, set own password, read users and roles, stop any job, and so on). Privileges are different from permissions in the sense that permissions control user access to containers, whereas privileges are effective globally across FlowForce Server. The following simple rule might help you distinguish quickly between privileges and permissions: privileges are global, permissions are local.
Like permissions, privileges can be assigned both to individual users and to roles. Therefore, when users log on to FlowForce Server, their set of effective privileges is determined by:
a) the privileges they have been assigned directly
b) the privileges assigned to any roles that the user is member of.
