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Not all data is meant to be viewed and edited by all users, and there are rare cases where we don't need to restrict the access to one or more resources in some way (except maybe proof-of-concept works, or garage-mode startups where everyone is an admin).
In this section, we will cover the permissions mechanism in Redash.
The core of Redash's permissions model are Groups.
Users are members of groups, while Data Sources are associated with groups.
Group membership by a user defines the actions they can perform, and the Data Sources they can access.
Each DataSource can be associated with one or more groups.
Currently, there are two types of relations between a DataSource and a group:
