As soon as any user logs into Pentaho, the system grants a set of predefined roles called the System roles. Starting from Pentaho BA Server 5.0, the management of permissions for these roles is in the Administration perspective. This recipe shows us how we can manage the permissions for these two roles.
The following steps will detail how we can change Operation Permissions to predefined System roles:
Select the System Roles tab from the left menu entry, Users / Roles, in the Administration perspective. The following screenshot shows us the set of System roles that are predefined in the system and their assigned operational permissions:
Select the role we want to change by updating Operation permissions from the Roles list.
Change the permissions currently assigned to the selected role by checking or unchecking items in the Operation Permissions checkboxes list.
The new set of permissions are immediately saved and applied to the current role.