Identities

Default Root User

A default root admin user is automatically created when VECTR is initialized. This user has full access to the application and cannot be deleted nor its permissions revoked.

Attention

We recommend using a strong password for the root user and enabling MFA. Be sure to securely store the MFA recovery codes in case your MFA device is lost or unavailable.

Users

A user is an entity that you create which represents the person that will interact with VECTR. The primary use case for a user account is to give people the ability to sign into VECTR and interact with the application GUI. A secondary use case is to provide programmatic access to VECTR through its API. When you create a user, you grant it permissions by making it a member of a group that has appropriate permission policies attached (recommended), or by directly attaching policies to the user.

Groups

A group is a collection of users. You can use groups to specify permissions for a collection of users, which can make those permissions easier to manage for those users. For example, you could have a group called Admins and give that group the types of permissions that administrators typically need. Any user in that group automatically has the permissions that are assigned to the group.