Terminology
The following terms are relevant to role-based access control within Neo4j:
- active user
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A user who is active within the system and can perform actions prescribed by any assigned roles on the data. This is in contrast to a suspended user.
- administrator
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This is a user who has been assigned the admin role.
- current user
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This is the currently logged-in user invoking the commands described in this chapter.
- password policy
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The password policy is a set of rules of what makes up a valid password. For Neo4j, the following rules apply:
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The password cannot be the empty string.
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When changing passwords, the new password cannot be the same as the previous password.
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- role
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This is a collection of actions — such as read and write — permitted on the data.
- suspended user
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A user who has been suspended is not able to access the database in any capacity, regardless of any assigned roles.
- user
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A user is composed of a username and credentials, where the latter is a unit of information, such as a password, verifying the identity of a user.
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A user may represent a human, an application etc.
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