Manage Your Server: Server Permissions

As described in Configuration : Authentication & Authorization, you can use two different authentication methods in RavenDB.
In both methods, each user is associated with a permission type:

• Admin
• Read, Write
• Read Only

The permission type is set by an admin when creating user settings in Windows Authentication or when using API keys.

Permissions to system database

Permissions to the system database describe which management sections a user can access. The following table shows the sections of the studio management and their associated permissions:

Studio management section	Write	Read
API keys	write	read
windows authentication	write	read
cluster	admin	read
global configuration	write	read
server smuggling	admin	n/a
backup	admin	n/a
compact	admin	n/a
restore	admin	n/a
admin logs	admin	n/a
server topology	admin	n/a
traffic watch	admin	n/a
license information	admin	read
gather debug information	admin	n/a
IO test	admin	n/a
disk IO viewer	admin	read
administrator js console	admin	n/a
studio configuration	write	read
hot spare	admin	n/a