17 RESTful API Role Service

A role is a named collection of authorizations that can be assigned to users. You can create roles with different authorizations for different purposes. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance users can be assigned any necessary roles. Using roles is more secure than sharing administrator passwords. Roles restrict users to necessary authorizations only, and attribute user actions to that username in the audit log.

The "Basic administration" role is preexisting and is assigned to all users by default.