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Users/Groups

Users and Groups can be configured at any place in the node tree. The way permissions work is users have access to the parent node and the parent nodes children. In the below example, Joe has access to the SBC device because both Joe and SBC are members of the Site 1 group. Joe does have access to the root node.

If Joe logs in, the following view will be presented:

Schema

The configuration of a group and a user in it:

nodes:
  - group:
      description: Site 1
  - user:
      parent: Site 1
      email: joe@example.com
      firstName: Joe
      lastName: Smith
      pass: his-password
      phone: "+12155551212"
      edgePoints:
        role: admin

A group carries a description and nothing else. Its place in the tree is what gives it meaning, and the users and devices below it are what it groups.

A user is the one node type with no description, so a file finds it by email, and by name when there is no email. phone is written as text so the leading + is kept.

role is admin or user and lives under edgePoints rather than with the points, because a role belongs to the connection between the user and the node above rather than to the user. The same user mirrored into two places can hold a different role in each.

An export carries pass as it was entered, so treat a file that contains user nodes the way you would treat the passwords in it.