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Roles and Rights 11
vCloud Director uses roles, and their associated rights, to determine which users and groups can perform
which
operations. System administrators can create and modify roles. System administrators and organization
administrators can assign roles to users and groups in an organization.
vCloud Director includes several predefined roles.
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System Administrator
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Organization Administrator
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Catalog Author
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vApp Author
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vApp User
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Console Access Only
Predefined Roles and Their Rights
vCloud Director includes predefined roles. Each of these roles includes a set of default rights.
Table 11-1 lists the predefined vCloud Director roles and the default rights assigned to each role. A system
administrator can create new roles and modify existing roles, except the System Administrator role.
Table 11-1. Default Rights for the Predefined Roles
System
Administrator
Organization
Administrator
Catalog
Author vApp Author vApp User
Console Access
Only
vApp:
Create/Reconfigu
re a vApp
X X X X
vApp: Delete a
vApp
X X X X X
vApp: Edit vApp
Properties
X X X X X
vApp:
Start/Stop/Suspe
nd/Reset a vApp
X X X X X
vApp: Share a
vApp
X X X X X
vApp: Copy a
vApp
X X X X X
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