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# Permissions and roles
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Users have different abilities depending on the role they have in a
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particular group or project. If a user is both in a project's group and the
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project itself, the highest role is used.
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On [public and internal projects ](../api/projects.md#project-visibility-level ), the Guest role
(not to be confused with [Guest user ](#free-guest-users )) is not enforced.
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When a member leaves a team's project, all the assigned [issues ](project/issues/index.md ) and
[merge requests ](project/merge_requests/index.md ) are automatically unassigned.
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GitLab [administrators ](../administration/index.md ) receive all permissions.
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To add or import a user, you can follow the
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[project members documentation ](project/members/index.md ).
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## Principles behind permissions
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See our [product handbook on permissions ](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/gitlab-the-product/#permissions-in-gitlab ).
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## Instance-wide user permissions
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By default, users can create top-level groups and change their
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usernames. A GitLab administrator can configure the GitLab instance to
[modify this behavior ](../administration/user_settings.md ).
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## Project members permissions
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> The Master role was renamed to Maintainer in GitLab 11.0.
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The Owner role is only available at the group or personal namespace level (and for instance administrators) and is inherited by its projects.
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While Maintainer is the highest project-level role, some actions can only be performed by a personal namespace or group owner, or an instance administrator, who receives all permissions.
For more information, see [projects members documentation ](project/members/index.md ).
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The following table lists project permissions available for each role:
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| Action | Guest | Reporter | Developer | Maintainer | Owner |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|----------|-----------|------------|-------|
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View issue analytics ** (PREMIUM)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View [merge request analytics ](analytics/merge_request_analytics.md ) ** (PREMIUM)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View value stream analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View [DORA metrics ](analytics/ci_cd_analytics.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View [CI/CD analytics ](analytics/ci_cd_analytics.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View [code review analytics ](analytics/code_review_analytics.md ) ** (PREMIUM)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Analytics ](analytics/index.md ):< br > View [repository analytics ](analytics/repository_analytics.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Assign issues | ✓ (*16*)| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create [confidential issue ](project/issues/confidential_issues.md ) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create new issue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download and browse job artifacts | ✓ (*3*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Download project | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Label issues | ✓ (*16*)| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Leave comments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage user-starred metrics dashboards (*7*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Pull project code | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Reposition comments on images (posted by any user)| ✓ (*10*)| ✓ (*10*) | ✓ (*10*) | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See a job log | ✓ (*3*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See a list of jobs | ✓ (*3*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See linked issues | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Set issue weight | ✓ (*16*)| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View [Design Management ](project/issues/design_management.md ) pages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View [Releases ](project/releases/index.md ) | ✓ (*6*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View a time tracking report | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View allowed and denied licenses ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View GitLab Pages protected by [access control ](project/pages/introduction.md#gitlab-pages-access-control ) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View Insights ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View License Compliance reports ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View licenses in Dependency list ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View project code | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View requirements ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Security reports ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ (*3*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View wiki pages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Archive [test case ](../ci/test_cases/index.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Archive/reopen requirements ** (ULTIMATE)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Assign reviewers | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create code snippets | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new [test case ](../ci/test_cases/index.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create/edit requirements ** (ULTIMATE)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import/export requirements ** (ULTIMATE)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Lock issue threads | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage issue tracker | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage labels | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage linked issues | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Move issues (*15*) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Move [test case ](../ci/test_cases/index.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Pull [packages ](packages/index.md ) | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Reopen [test case ](../ci/test_cases/index.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See a commit status | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See a list of merge requests | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See environments | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Set issue estimate and record time spent ](project/time_tracking.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View [confidential issues ](project/issues/confidential_issues.md ) | (*2*) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View Error Tracking list | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View License list ** (ULTIMATE)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View metrics dashboard annotations | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View project statistics | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Add tags | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apply code change suggestions | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approve merge requests (*9*) | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Assign merge requests | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cancel and retry jobs | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create and edit wiki pages | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create and run [on-demand DAST scans ](application_security/dast/#on-demand-scans ) | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create issue from vulnerability finding ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create new branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create new environments | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new merge request | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create or update commit status | | | ✓ (*5*) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create vulnerability from vulnerability finding ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create/edit/delete [releases ](project/releases/index.md )| | | ✓ (*13*) | ✓ (*13*) | ✓ (*13*) |
| Create/edit/delete a Cleanup policy | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create/edit/delete metrics dashboard annotations | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create/edit/delete project milestones | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dismiss vulnerability ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dismiss vulnerability finding ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enable Review Apps | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Force push to non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Label merge requests | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Lock merge request threads | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage Feature Flags ** (PREMIUM)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage security policy ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage/Accept merge requests | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Publish [packages ](packages/index.md ) | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push to non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Read Terraform state | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Remove a container registry image | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Remove non-protected branches | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Resolve vulnerability ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Revert vulnerability to detected state ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Rewrite/remove Git tags | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Run CI/CD pipeline against a protected branch | | | ✓ (*5*) | ✓ | ✓ |
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| See a job with [debug logging ](../ci/variables/index.md#debug-logging ) | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stop environments | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Update a container registry | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Upload [Design Management ](project/issues/design_management.md ) files | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Use security dashboard ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View [Threats list ](application_security/threat_monitoring/#threat-monitoring ) ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Dependency list ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Pods logs | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View project Audit Events | | | ✓ (*11*) | ✓ | ✓ |
| View vulnerability ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View vulnerability findings in Dependency list ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add deploy keys to project | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Add new team members | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Configure project hooks | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change project features visibility level | | | | ✓ (14) | ✓ |
| Delete [packages ](packages/index.md ) | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete wiki pages | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit comments (posted by any user) | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit project badges | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit project settings | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Enable/disable branch protection | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enable/disable tag protections | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Export project | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage [project access tokens ](project/settings/project_access_tokens.md ) ** (FREE SELF)** ** (PREMIUM SAAS)** (*12*) | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage [push rules ](../push_rules/push_rules.md ) | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage CI/CD variables | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage clusters | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage Error Tracking | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage GitLab Pages | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage GitLab Pages domains and certificates | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage job triggers | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage license policy ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage merge approval rules (project settings) | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage Project Operations | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage runners | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage Terraform state | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Push to protected branches | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remove GitLab Pages | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Request a CVE ID ** (FREE SAAS)** | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Run Web IDE's Interactive Web Terminals ** (ULTIMATE SELF)** | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share (invite) projects with groups | | | | ✓ (*8*) | ✓ (*8*)|
| Turn on/off protected branch push for developers | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Use environment terminals | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View 2FA status of members | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Administer project compliance frameworks | | | | | ✓ |
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| Archive project | | | | | ✓ |
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| Change project visibility level | | | | | ✓ |
| Create or assign security policy project ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | | | ✓ |
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| Delete issues | | | | | ✓ |
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| Delete merge request | | | | | ✓ |
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| Delete pipelines | | | | | ✓ |
| Delete project | | | | | ✓ |
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| Disable notification emails | | | | | ✓ |
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| Remove fork relationship | | | | | ✓ |
| Rename project | | | | | ✓ |
| Transfer project to another namespace | | | | | ✓ |
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| Force push to protected branches (*4*) | | | | | |
| Remove protected branches (*4*) | | | | | |
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1. Guest users are able to perform this action on public and internal projects, but not private projects. This doesn't apply to [external users ](#external-users ) where explicit access must be given even if the project is internal.
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1. Guest users can only view the [confidential issues ](project/issues/confidential_issues.md ) they created themselves.
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1. If **Public pipelines** is enabled in **Project Settings > CI/CD** .
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1. Not allowed for Guest, Reporter, Developer, Maintainer, or Owner. See [protected branches ](project/protected_branches.md ).
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1. If the [branch is protected ](project/protected_branches.md ), this depends on the access Developers and Maintainers are given.
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1. Guest users can access GitLab [**Releases** ](project/releases/index.md ) for downloading assets but are not allowed to download the source code nor see repository information like tags and commits.
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1. Actions are limited only to records owned (referenced) by user.
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1. When [Share Group Lock ](group/index.md#prevent-a-project-from-being-shared-with-groups ) is enabled the project can't be shared with other groups. It does not affect group with group sharing.
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1. For information on eligible approvers for merge requests, see
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[Eligible approvers ](project/merge_requests/approvals/rules.md#eligible-approvers ).
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1. Applies only to comments on [Design Management ](project/issues/design_management.md ) designs.
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1. Users can only view events based on their individual actions.
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1. Project access tokens are supported for self-managed instances on Free and above. They are also
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supported on GitLab SaaS Premium and above (excluding [trial licenses ](https://about.gitlab.com/free-trial/ )).
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1. If the [tag is protected ](#release-permissions-with-protected-tags ), this depends on the access Developers and Maintainers are given.
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1. A Maintainer can't change project features visibility level if
[project visibility ](../public_access/public_access.md ) is set to private.
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1. Attached design files are moved together with the issue even if the user doesn't have the
Developer role.
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1. Guest users can set metadata (for example, labels, assignees, or milestones) when creating an issue.
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## Project features permissions
### Wiki and issues
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Project features like [wikis ](project/wiki/index.md ) and issues can be hidden from users depending on
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which visibility level you select on project settings.
- Disabled: disabled for everyone
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- Only team members: only team members can see even if your project is public or internal
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- Everyone with access: everyone can see depending on your project's visibility level
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- Everyone: enabled for everyone (only available for GitLab Pages)
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### Protected branches
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Additional restrictions can be applied on a per-branch basis with [protected branches ](project/protected_branches.md ).
Additionally, you can customize permissions to allow or prevent project
Maintainers and Developers from pushing to a protected branch. Read through the documentation on
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[protected branches ](project/protected_branches.md )
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to learn more.
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### Value Stream Analytics permissions
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Find the current permissions on the Value Stream Analytics dashboard, as described in
[related documentation ](analytics/value_stream_analytics.md#permissions ).
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### Issue Board permissions
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Find the current permissions for interacting with the Issue Board feature in the
[Issue Boards permissions page ](project/issue_board.md#permissions ).
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### File Locking permissions **(PREMIUM)**
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The user that locks a file or directory is the only one that can edit and push their changes back to the repository where the locked objects are located.
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Read through the documentation on [permissions for File Locking ](project/file_lock.md#permissions ) to learn more.
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### Confidential Issues permissions
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[Confidential issues ](project/issues/confidential_issues.md ) can be accessed by users with reporter and higher permission levels,
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as well as by guest users that create a confidential issue. To learn more,
read through the documentation on [permissions and access to confidential issues ](project/issues/confidential_issues.md#permissions-and-access-to-confidential-issues ).
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### Container Registry visibility permissions
Find the visibility permissions for the Container Registry, as described in the
[related documentation ](packages/container_registry/index.md#container-registry-visibility-permissions ).
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## Group members permissions
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NOTE:
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In GitLab 11.0, the Master role was renamed to Maintainer.
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Any user can remove themselves from a group, unless they are the last Owner of
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the group.
The following table lists group permissions available for each role:
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| Action | Guest | Reporter | Developer | Maintainer | Owner |
|--------------------------------------------------------|-------|----------|-----------|------------|-------|
| Browse group | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Edit SAML SSO Billing ** (PREMIUM SAAS)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (4) |
| View Contribution analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View group epic ** (PREMIUM)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View group wiki pages ** (PREMIUM)** | ✓ (6) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View Insights ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View Insights charts ** (ULTIMATE)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View Issue analytics ** (PREMIUM)** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Value Stream analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create/edit group epic ** (PREMIUM)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create/edit/delete epic boards ** (PREMIUM)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage group labels | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Pull [packages ](packages/index.md ) | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View a container registry | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Group DevOps Adoption ** (ULTIMATE)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View metrics dashboard annotations | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View Productivity analytics ** (PREMIUM)** | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create and edit group wiki pages ** (PREMIUM)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create project in group | | | ✓ (3)(5) | ✓ (3) | ✓ (3) |
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| Create/edit/delete group milestones | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create/edit/delete iterations | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Create/edit/delete metrics dashboard annotations | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Enable/disable a dependency proxy | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Publish [packages ](packages/index.md ) | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Use security dashboard ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| View group Audit Events | | | ✓ (7) | ✓ (7) | ✓ |
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| Create subgroup | | | | ✓ (1) | ✓ |
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| Delete group wiki pages ** (PREMIUM)** | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Edit epic comments (posted by any user) ** (ULTIMATE)** | | | | ✓ (2) | ✓ (2) |
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| List group deploy tokens | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Manage [group push rules ](group/index.md#group-push-rules ) ** (PREMIUM)** | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| View/manage group-level Kubernetes cluster | | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Administer project compliance frameworks | | | | | ✓ |
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| Create/Delete group deploy tokens | | | | | ✓ |
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| Delete group | | | | | ✓ |
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| Delete group epic ** (PREMIUM)** | | | | | ✓ |
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| Disable notification emails | | | | | ✓ |
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| Edit group settings | | | | | ✓ |
| Filter members by 2FA status | | | | | ✓ |
| Manage group level CI/CD variables | | | | | ✓ |
| Manage group members | | | | | ✓ |
| Share (invite) groups with groups | | | | | ✓ |
| View 2FA status of members | | | | | ✓ |
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| View Billing ** (FREE SAAS)** | | | | | ✓ (4) |
| View Usage Quotas ** (FREE SAAS)** | | | | | ✓ (4) |
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1. Groups can be set to [allow either Owners or Owners and
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Maintainers to create subgroups](group/subgroups/index.md#creating-a-subgroup)
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1. Introduced in GitLab 12.2.
1. Default project creation role can be changed at:
- The [instance level ](admin_area/settings/visibility_and_access_controls.md#default-project-creation-protection ).
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- The [group level ](group/index.md#specify-who-can-add-projects-to-a-group ).
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1. Does not apply to subgroups.
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1. Developers can push commits to the default branch of a new project only if the [default branch protection ](group/index.md#change-the-default-branch-protection-of-a-group ) is set to "Partially protected" or "Not protected".
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1. In addition, if your group is public or internal, all users who can see the group can also see group wiki pages.
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1. Users can only view events based on their individual actions.
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### Subgroup permissions
When you add a member to a subgroup, they inherit the membership and
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permission level from the parent group(s). This model allows access to
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nested groups if you have membership in one of its parents.
To learn more, read through the documentation on
[subgroups memberships ](group/subgroups/index.md#membership ).
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## External users **(FREE SELF)**
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In cases where it is desired that a user has access only to some internal or
private projects, there is the option of creating **External Users** . This
feature may be useful when for example a contractor is working on a given
project and should only have access to that project.
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External users:
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- Can only create projects (including forks), subgroups, and snippets within the top-level group to which they belong.
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- Can only access public projects and projects to which they are explicitly granted access,
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thus hiding all other internal or private ones from them (like being
logged out).
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- Can only access public groups and groups to which they are explicitly granted access,
thus hiding all other internal or private ones from them (like being
logged out).
- Can only access public snippets.
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Access can be granted by adding the user as member to the project or group.
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Like usual users, they receive a role in the project or group with all
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the abilities that are mentioned in the [permissions table above ](#project-members-permissions ).
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For example, if an external user is added as Guest, and your project is internal or
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private, they do not have access to the code; you need to grant the external
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user access at the Reporter level or above if you want them to have access to the code. You should
always take into account the
[project's visibility and permissions settings ](project/settings/index.md#sharing-and-permissions )
as well as the permission level of the user.
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NOTE:
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External users still count towards a license seat.
An administrator can flag a user as external by either of the following methods:
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- [Through the API ](../api/users.md#user-modification ).
- Using the GitLab UI:
1. On the top bar, select **Menu >** ** {admin}** **Admin** .
1. On the left sidebar, select **Overview > Users** to create a new user or edit an existing one.
There, you can find the option to flag the user as external.
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Additionally users can be set as external users using [SAML groups ](../integration/saml.md#external-groups )
and [LDAP groups ](../administration/auth/ldap/index.md#external-groups ).
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### Setting new users to external
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By default, new users are not set as external users. This behavior can be changed
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by an administrator:
1. On the top bar, select **Menu >** ** {admin}** **Admin** .
1. On the left sidebar, select **Settings > General** .
1. Expand the **Account and limit** section.
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If you change the default behavior of creating new users as external, you
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have the option to narrow it down by defining a set of internal users.
The **Internal users** field allows specifying an email address regex pattern to
identify default internal users. New users whose email address matches the regex
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pattern are set to internal by default rather than an external collaborator.
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The regex pattern format is in Ruby, but it needs to be convertible to JavaScript,
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and the ignore case flag is set (`/regex pattern/i`). Here are some examples:
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- Use `\.internal@domain\.com$` to mark email addresses ending with
`.internal@domain.com` as internal.
- Use `^(?:(?!\.ext@domain\.com).)*$\r?` to mark users with email addresses
NOT including `.ext@domain.com` as internal.
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WARNING:
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Be aware that this regex could lead to a
[regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS ).
## Free Guest users **(ULTIMATE)**
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When a user is given Guest permissions on a project, group, or both, and holds no
higher permission level on any other project or group on the GitLab instance,
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the user is considered a guest user by GitLab and does not consume a license seat.
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There is no other specific "guest" designation for newly created users.
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If the user is assigned a higher role on any projects or groups, the user
takes a license seat. If a user creates a project, the user becomes a Maintainer
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on the project, resulting in the use of a license seat. Also, note that if your
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project is internal or private, Guest users have all the abilities that are
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mentioned in the [permissions table above ](#project-members-permissions ) (they
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are unable to browse the project's repository, for example).
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NOTE:
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To prevent a guest user from creating projects, as an admin, you can edit the
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user's profile to mark the user as [external ](#external-users ).
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Beware though that even if a user is external, if they already have Reporter or
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higher permissions in any project or group, they are **not** counted as a
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free guest user.
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## Auditor users **(PREMIUM SELF)**
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>[Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/998) in [GitLab Premium ](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ ) 8.17.
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Auditor users are given read-only access to all projects, groups, and other
resources on the GitLab instance.
An Auditor user should be able to access all projects and groups of a GitLab instance
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with the permissions described on the documentation on [auditor users permissions ](../administration/auditor_users.md#permissions-and-restrictions-of-an-auditor-user ).
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[Read more about Auditor users. ](../administration/auditor_users.md )
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## Users with minimal access **(PREMIUM)**
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>[Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/40942) in [GitLab Premium ](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ ) 13.4.
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Owners can add members with a "minimal access" role to a parent group. Such users don't
automatically have access to projects and subgroups underneath. To support such access, owners must explicitly add these "minimal access" users to the specific subgroups/projects.
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Users with minimal access can list the group in the UI and through the API. However, they cannot see
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details such as projects or subgroups. They do not have access to the group's page or list any of its subgroups or projects.
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### Minimal access users take license seats
Users with even a "minimal access" role are counted against your number of license seats. This
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requirement does not apply for [GitLab Ultimate ](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ )
subscriptions.
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## Project features
Project features like wiki and issues can be hidden from users depending on
which visibility level you select on project settings.
- Disabled: disabled for everyone
- Only team members: only team members will see even if your project is public or internal
- Everyone with access: everyone can see depending on your project visibility level
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- Everyone: enabled for everyone (only available for GitLab Pages)
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## GitLab CI/CD permissions
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NOTE:
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In GitLab 11.0, the Master role was renamed to Maintainer.
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GitLab CI/CD permissions rely on the role the user has in GitLab. There are four
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roles:
- Administrator
- Maintainer
- Developer
- Guest/Reporter
The Administrator role can perform any action on GitLab CI/CD in scope of the GitLab
instance and project.
| Action | Guest, Reporter | Developer |Maintainer| Administrator |
|---------------------------------------|-----------------|-------------|----------|---------------|
| See commits and jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Retry or cancel job | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Erase job artifacts and job logs | | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete project | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create project | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change project configuration | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add specific runners | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add shared runners | | | | ✓ |
| See events in the system | | | | ✓ |
| Admin Area | | | | ✓ |
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1. Only if the job was:
- Triggered by the user
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- [In GitLab 13.0 ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/35069 ) and later, run for a non-protected branch.
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### Job permissions
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NOTE:
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In GitLab 11.0, the Master role was renamed to Maintainer.
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This table shows granted privileges for jobs triggered by specific types of
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users:
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| Action | Guest, Reporter | Developer |Maintainer| Admin |
|---------------------------------------------|-----------------|-------------|----------|---------|
| Run CI job | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clone source and LFS from current project | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clone source and LFS from public projects | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clone source and LFS from internal projects | | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ |
| Clone source and LFS from private projects | | ✓ (*2*) | ✓ (*2*) | ✓ (*2*) |
| Pull container images from current project | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pull container images from public projects | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pull container images from internal projects| | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ (*1*) | ✓ |
| Pull container images from private projects | | ✓ (*2*) | ✓ (*2*) | ✓ (*2*) |
| Push container images to current project | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push container images to other projects | | | | |
| Push source and LFS | | | | |
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1. Only if the user is not an external one
1. Only if the user is a member of the project
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## Running pipelines on protected branches
The permission to merge or push to protected branches is used to define if a user can
run CI/CD pipelines and execute actions on jobs that are related to those branches.
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See [Security on protected branches ](../ci/pipelines/index.md#pipeline-security-on-protected-branches )
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for details about the pipelines security model.
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## Release permissions with protected tags
[The permission to create tags ](project/protected_tags.md ) is used to define if a user can
create, edit, and delete [Releases ](project/releases/index.md ).
See [Release permissions ](project/releases/index.md#release-permissions )
for more information.
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## LDAP users permissions
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In GitLab 8.15 and later, LDAP user permissions can now be manually overridden by an admin user.
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Read through the documentation on [LDAP users permissions ](group/index.md#manage-group-memberships-via-ldap ) to learn more.
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## Project aliases
Project aliases can only be read, created and deleted by a GitLab administrator.
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Read through the documentation on [Project aliases ](../user/project/import/index.md#project-aliases ) to learn more.
