Roles and permissions

Each person in an organization has one role: Owner, Admin, or Member. The role decides what the person can do. Stout checks the role on the server for each action. Owners and admins have the same permissions, except for some organization settings that only an owner can change. The tables on this page show owners and admins in one column, and they mark each action that only owners can do. Members can use only the boxes that an owner or admin assigns to them. The dashboard sometimes shows a control that a member cannot use. If a member selects that control, Stout refuses the action. Stout does not let anyone remove or demote the last owner of an organization.

Boxes

Action	Owners and admins	Members
See boxes and open box pages	All boxes	Assigned boxes only
Add, edit, import, or delete boxes	Yes	No
Install or uninstall Stout, and update Stout or Lager	Yes	No
Add, edit, or delete nets, and save or apply templates	Yes	No
Create and manage box groups	Yes	No
Upload box photos	Yes	No
Start, stop, and adjust webcam streams	Yes	No
Assign boxes to members	Yes	No
Set variables for one box	Yes	No

Locks

Action	Owners and admins	Members
Lock and unlock a box for yourself	Yes	Yes
Force unlock a box that another person holds	Yes	No
Send a command from a Workbench instrument panel to a box that another person holds	No	No

You must have a display name before you can lock a box. A lock does not stop an owner or admin from editing, updating, or deleting a box. See Locks.

Do not depend on a lock alone to keep other people off a box. A lock does not stop a UART console, a firmware flash, a script from Import Test, or a Factory run. Tell the people who share the box before you start work that must not be interrupted.

Workbench and tests

Action	Owners and admins	Members
Open Workbench and see nets	Yes	Yes
Control instruments, flash firmware, and open a UART console	Yes	No
Run a repository test from Select Test	Yes	Assigned boxes only
Run a script with Import Test	Yes	Assigned boxes only
Choose the repository and tests path for Select Test	Yes	No

Factory

Action	Owners and admins	Members
See suites, runs, and run results	Yes	Yes
Import, edit, and delete suites	Yes	No
Start and cancel runs	Yes	No
Answer operator prompts during a live run	Yes	Yes

Organization and settings

Action	Owners and admins	Members
Change the organization name, slug, and default box username	Owners only	No
Delete the organization	Owners only	No
Configure SSO	Owners only	No
Invite members and admins	Yes	No
Invite owners	Owners only	No
Give the Owner role, or change the role of an owner	Owners only	No
Change the role of an admin or a member	Yes	No
Remove people from the organization	Yes	No
Unlock accounts and make password reset links	Yes	No
Manage integrations, organization variables, and CI keys	Yes	No
Read the audit log	Yes	No
Edit your own account, password, SSH keys, and notification settings	Yes	Yes

To save an SSO configuration, an owner must also have a verified email address. See Single sign-on.

Features that your organization controls

Each organization has Home, Boxes, Audit Log, and Settings. Stout turns on the other features, such as Workbench, Factory, and CI Metrics, for each organization. Stout calls these features modules. To see the modules of your organization, owners and admins go to Settings > Modules. To add a feature, contact Stout. A feature with a Beta label is new. Stout can change it before it is complete. Every member sees every feature that your organization has. The role and the box access of a member control what the member can do. See Members and invitations.

The Developer role

Stout staff who help your organization show the role Developer on the Team Permissions page. They do not have an owner, admin, or member role in that list.

Getting Started

Reference

Roles and permissions

Boxes

Locks

Workbench and tests

Factory

Organization and settings

Features that your organization controls

The Developer role

​Boxes

​Locks

​Workbench and tests

​Factory

​Organization and settings

​Features that your organization controls

​The Developer role

Boxes

Locks

Workbench and tests

Factory

Organization and settings

Features that your organization controls

The Developer role