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title: "What is Role-based security?"  
description: "What is Role-based security?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-09-01  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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# What is Role-based security?

In the Role-based security, you can assign a role to every user and grant the privilege according to that role. A role is a group of principal that restricts a user's privileges. Therefore, all the organization and applications use role-based security model to determine whether a user has enough privileges to perform a requested task.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

In the Role-based security, you can assign a role to every user and grant the privilege according to that role. A role is a group of principal that restricts a user's privileges. Therefore, all the organization and applications use role-based security model to determine whether a user has enough privileges to perform a requested task.


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