📖What it means

A named bundle of permissions given to many principals at once, so access is granted by what someone IS rather than one permission at a time.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Tier", "distinction": "A role is a bundle of permissions; a tier is a person's trust level with Carol."}, {"term": "Principal", "distinction": "A role is what is held; a principal is who holds it."}]

📖Also called

- access role
- permission group

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Security.