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Manage DataHub users Limited availability

Invite users to your DataHub service, giving them access to read or edit metadata.

For programmatic access to your DataHub service, use DataHub’s personal access tokens (PATs).

Security best practices​

Don’t share the Aiven for DataHub default password. Instead, invite users to your DataHub service in the DataHub UI, assigning only the level of access they need.

Invite users to DataHub​

  1. Log in to DataHub and click Settings.
  2. Click Users & Groups.
  3. Click Invite Users.
  4. Select a role.
  5. Click Copy.
  6. Send the link to the users.

After clicking the link, the users sign up with their email and create a password.

Manage user roles​

The DataHub documentation on roles has instructions on assigning roles to individual users, and details of the privileges for each role. For more fine-grained control over permissions, use policies.

Assign roles to groups of users​

You can also create groups of users to more easily manage user access:

  1. Log in to DataHub and click Settings.
  2. Click Users & Groups.
  3. Click Create group.
  4. Enter a name for the group.
  5. Click Create.
  6. Assign a role to the group.
  7. Click the group name.
  8. On the Members tab, click Add Member.
  9. Select the users to add to the group and click Add.

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