Sub-Account Creation & Permissions

[ECHOlinuxWarrior]

• Admin User by Default:

  • Every Puter account owner is considered the Admin user.
  • Admins have full control over their files and directories.

• Create Sub-Accounts:

  • Admins can create multiple sub-accounts based on specific needs.
  • These sub-accounts can have customized permissions for file and directory access. For example:
    • File Permissions: Create, Read, Modify, Delete.
    • Directory Permissions: Create, Read, Update, Delete.

• User Invitations:

  • Admins can invite users via email or username to join their account as sub-users.
  • Invitations grant access based on pre-defined permissions.

• Access via Main Page:

  • Sub-users can log in via the main Puter page and access their assigned permissions within the account.

[KernelDeimos]

We will eventually add the ability for admin users to create and manage other user accounts. These won't be sub-accounts, these will be actual user accounts.

The concept of "sub-accounts" may by useful for an admin user to grant limited access to APIs or apps, but as soon as a human is being authorized somewhere that will be a real account and never a sub-account. (sub-account authorization opens more security risks and can do other inconvenient things, like tie up a user's email such that they can't make a "real" account)