Custom Assessment and Remediation User Roles and Permissions

Custom Assessment and Remediation has 5 OOTB (Out-of-the-box) roles for users:

  • CAR Manager: The manager role has all the default permissions of CAR, and can create and grant permissions to other users. They have all the privileges and access to all modules.
  • CAR Author: The author role has limited developmental permissions, such as create, update, and download. This role also has all the view-only permissions.
  • CAR Auditor: The auditor has the view-only and download permissions.
  • CAR Viewer: The viewer role has the view-only permission.
  • CAR Library Script Importer (Read-Only): The Library Script Importer has all the permissions except to create and update scripts and software packages.

User Roles Comparison

The Custom Assessment and Remediation module has several permission groups related to specific permission categories. The following are the permission categories for this module: 

Permission Categories Description Default Roles
Manager Operations Author Auditor Viewer Library Script Importer (Read only)
CAR Permissions Car UI Access
Script Permissions View Script List Page
Create Script N N N N
Update script N N N N
Review script N N N N
Evaluate script N N N
Execute script N N N
Approve, and deprecate script  N N N N
Import and export script N N
Download script N
Job Permissions View Job List Page
Jobs: Download and delete jobs. N N N
Schedule Permissions View Schedule List Page
Create, update, and delete the schedule N N
Activate and deactivate the schedule N N N
Download the schedule N
Library Permissions (Script Liabrary) View the script library
Import the script library N N N
Configuration Permissions View the configuration page N N N N N
Modify the configuration page N N N N N N
Audit Log Permissions View Audit Logs List Page
Download Audit Logs N N N
Reports Permissions View
Download N
Create  N N N
Delete N N N N
Software Package View
Execute N N N
Create N N N N N
Update N N N N N
Evaluate N N N N
Deprecate, Approve, and Review N N N N
Software Package Jobs View
Download N N N