Source
Permissions, SSO & administration — found from sitemap — BookStack
Checked for BookStack on 1 Nov 2026
- Page
- https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/user/roles-and-permissions/
- Checked
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:02 UTC
- How we may use it
- Public page, crawling permitted
Technical details
- type
- page
- http status
- 200
- content hash
- sha256:696fd2140de4e138694e9ebb03bdf919f7cfa715cff17a19b326a31d309a85ee
- permission
- robots_ok
- screenshot
- Screenshot on file (internal exhibit, not published)
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Facts read from this source
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Multiple roles stacking Report an error
“A user can be assigned multiple roles, in which case the permissions will stack and the user will receive any ability if any of the roles is provided that specific ability.”
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Default roles provided Report an error
“A set of default roles are provided in a fresh BookStack instance for common use cases.”
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Role own permissions Report an error
“Many of the asset permissions have an “Own” option. This provides the members of that role the ability only when they are the owner of an item in the system.”
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Role assignment by admin Report an error
“Roles can be assigned to a user, by an admin, via editing a user’s profile in the “Settings > Users” area of the BookStack interface.”
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Default role after registration Report an error
“The “Default user role after registration” option in the registration settings.”
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Ldap group sync roles Report an error
“LDAP group syncing.”
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Saml2 group sync roles Report an error
“SAML2 group syncing.”
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Content level permissions Report an error
“Permissions can be overridden at a Shelf, Book, Chapter or Page level where required.”
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Content permissions everyone else Report an error
“An “Everyone Else” option is available to allow permission override/control for any roles that are not specifically overridden.”
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Content permissions cascade Report an error
“Custom permissions applied to books or chapters will auto-cascade to all child content within unless that content has its custom permissions.”
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Admin role permissions Report an error
“The default admin role always retains all permissions for ultimate control, and this role will not be configurable in permission views.”
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Permission specificity levels Report an error
“There are three main levels of permission, which have different levels of specificity.”
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Permission grant deny rule Report an error
“Where both grant and deny exist at the same specificity, we side towards the grant.”
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Permission specificity priority Report an error
“Most specific permission application (as above) take priority and can deny less specific permissions.”
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