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# Permissions
Users have different abilities depending on the access level they have.
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## Roles
### Admin
Users with the admin role receive all permissions.
### Maintainer
Maintainers can manage most entities in Fleet, like queries, policies, labels and schedules.
Unlike admins, maintainers cannot edit higher level settings like application configuration, teams or users.
### Observer
The Observer role is a read-only role. It can access most entities in Fleet, like queries, policies, labels, schedules, application configuration, teams, etc.
They can also run queries configured with the `observer_can_run` flag set to `true` .
### Observer+
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`Applies only to Fleet Premium`
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Observer+ is an Observer with the added ability to run *any* query.
### GitOps
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`Applies only to Fleet Premium`
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GitOps is a modern approach to Continuous Deployment (CD) that uses Git as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application configurations.
GitOps is an API-only and write-only role that can be used on CI/CD pipelines.
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## User permissions
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| **Action** | Observer | Observer+ *| Maintainer | Admin | GitOps * |
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| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | --------- | ---------- | ----- | ------ |
| View all [activity ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#activities ) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| View all hosts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter hosts using [labels ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#labels ) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Target hosts using labels | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Add and delete hosts | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Transfer hosts between teams\* | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, and delete labels | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| View all software | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter software by [vulnerabilities ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/vulnerability-processing#vulnerability-processing ) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter hosts by software | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter software by team\* | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Manage [vulnerability automations ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/automations#vulnerability-automations ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Run only designated, **observer can run** , queries as live queries against all hosts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Run any query as [live query ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/fleet-ui#run-a-query ) against all hosts | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Create, edit, and delete queries | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| View all queries\** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Add, edit, and remove queries from all schedules | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, view, and delete packs | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| View all policies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter hosts using policies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Create, edit, and delete policies for all hosts | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, and delete policies for all hosts assigned to team\* | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Manage [policy automations ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/automations#policy-automations ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, view, and delete users | | | | ✅ | |
| Add and remove team members\* | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, and delete teams\* | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, and delete [enroll secrets ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/deploying/faq#when-do-i-need-to-deploy-a-new-enroll-secret-to-my-hosts ) | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, and delete [enroll secrets for teams ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#get-enroll-secrets-for-a-team )\* | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Read organization settings and agent options\*** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Edit [organization settings ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/configuration-files#organization-settings ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Edit [agent options ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/configuration-files#agent-options ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Edit [agent options for hosts assigned to teams ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/configuration-files#team-agent-options )\* | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Initiate [file carving ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#file-carving ) | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Retrieve contents from file carving | | | | ✅ | |
| View Apple mobile device management (MDM) certificate information | | | | ✅ | |
| View Apple business manager (BM) information | | | | ✅ | |
| Generate Apple mobile device management (MDM) certificate signing request (CSR) | | | | ✅ | |
| View disk encryption key for macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Create edit and delete configuration profiles for macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Execute MDM commands on macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| View results of MDM commands executed on macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Edit [MDM settings ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/mdm-macos-settings ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Edit [MDM settings for teams ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/mdm-macos-settings ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Upload an EULA file for MDM automatic enrollment\* | | | | ✅ | |
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| View/download MDM macOS setup assistant\* | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Edit/upload MDM macOS setup assistant\* | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
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\* Applies only to Fleet Premium
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\** Global observers can view all queries but the UI and fleetctl only list the ones they can run (**observer can run**).
\*** Applies only to [Fleet REST API ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api )
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## Team member permissions
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`Applies only to Fleet Premium`
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Users in Fleet either have team access or global access.
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Users with team access only have access to the [hosts ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#hosts ), [software ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#software ), [schedules ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/fleet-ui#schedule-a-query ) , and [policies ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#policies ) assigned to
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their team.
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Users with global access have access to all
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[hosts ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#hosts ), [software ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#software ), [queries ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#queries ), [schedules ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/fleet-ui#schedule-a-query ) , and [policies ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#policies ). Check out [the user permissions
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table](#user-permissions) above for global user permissions.
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Users can be a member of multiple teams in Fleet.
Users that are members of multiple teams can be assigned different roles for each team. For example, a user can be given access to the "Workstations" team and assigned the "Observer" role. This same user can be given access to the "Servers" team and assigned the "Maintainer" role.
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| **Action** | Team observer | Team observer+ | Team maintainer | Team admin | Team GitOps |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ---------- | ----------- |
| View hosts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter hosts using [labels ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#labels ) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Target hosts using labels | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Add and delete hosts | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Filter software by [vulnerabilities ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/vulnerability-processing#vulnerability-processing ) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Filter hosts by software | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter software | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Run only designated, **observer can run** , queries as live queries against all hosts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Run any query as [live query ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/fleet-ui#run-a-query ) | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Create, edit, and delete only **self authored** queries | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| View all queries\** | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Add, edit, and remove queries from the schedule | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| View policies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| View global (inherited) policies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Filter hosts using policies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Create, edit, and delete policies | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Manage [policy automations ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/automations#policy-automations ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add and remove team members | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Edit team name | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, edit, and delete [team enroll secrets ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#get-enroll-secrets-for-a-team ) | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Read agent options\* | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Edit [agent options ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/configuration-files#agent-options ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
| Initiate [file carving ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api#file-carving ) | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| View disk encryption key for macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Create edit and delete configuration profiles for macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Execute MDM commands on macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM, and read command results | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Execute MDM commands on macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| View results of MDM commands executed on macOS hosts enrolled in Fleet's MDM | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Edit [team MDM settings ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/mdm-macos-settings ) | | | | ✅ | ✅ |
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| View/download MDM macOS setup assistant | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
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| Edit/upload MDM macOS setup assistant | | | ✅ | ✅ | |
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\* Applies only to [Fleet REST API ](https://fleetdm.com/docs/using-fleet/rest-api )
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\** Team observers can view all queries but the UI and fleetctl only list the ones they can run (**observer can run**).
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