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System Accounts

Setup​

To give a user system access, add the user(s) email address(es) to the credentials file. If a user's system access needs to be revoked, then remove the user's email address from the credentials file.

Edit your environment (development, production, etc) credentials file with the following command.

EDITOR="vim --nofork" bin/rails credentials:edit --environment ENVIRONMENT

Read more about the rails credential file here

Follow the format below:

system_accounts:
  user_emails:
    - user1@email.com
    - user2@email.com
    - user3@email.com
    ...

Functionality​

System users have access to the following additional functionality in addition to their regular access to IRIDA Next:

  • Query metrics through the GraphQL API (groups and projects)