Class Role


  • public class Role
    extends Object
    A personality that a user assumes when performing a specific set of operations. A role includes a set of right and privileges. A user assuming that role inherits those rights and privileges.

    In Keystone, a token that is issued to a user includes the list of roles that user can assume. Services that are being called by that user determine how they interpret the set of roles a user has and which operations or resources each roles grants access to.

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