Privilege Level

Overview

Numerous features in LearningBuilder prevent a user from taking action on a “more privileged” account.

For instance, a customer service administrator cannot impersonate a System Administrator because that would allow them to modify system settings that they would not otherwise be authorized to change.

The “more privileged” concept is defined as:

Rule

Rule

1

A SysAdmin is more privileged than anyone without the SysAdmin role, and equal to all other SysAdmins.

A SysAdmin is never considered “less privileged” than any other account.

2

Anyone with access to the Admin area is more privileged than anyone without access to the Admin area.

3

An Admin (A) is more privileged than another Admin (B) if A contains any Admin-area permission that is NOT also held by B.

This does not apply any “ranking” to the Admin-area permissions, such as considering the “manage” permissions to more of a higher level than “access” permissions.

It is a simple comparison; if Admin B has any Admin permission not explicitly assigned to Admin A, then B is considered “more privileged”.

Related features

This concept is used when:

  • Accessing the Profile page of another Member

  • Impersonating another Member