# Roles & menu access

Homelab Manager has three roles, ranked lowest to highest: **viewer**,
**operator**, **admin**. The first person to sign in becomes admin;
everyone after that starts as viewer until an admin changes their role
under **Administration → Users**.

A role can do everything the roles below it can, plus what's listed for
it — operator includes everything viewer has, admin includes everything
operator has.

## Sidebar menu, by role

✅ = the menu item appears for that role · ❌ = it's hidden entirely (not
just disabled) — a group that would end up with zero visible items
disappears too, and a group left with exactly one just shows as that
page's own top-level link.

| Menu item | Path | Viewer | Operator | Admin |
|---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| Dashboard | `/` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Infrastructure** | | | | |
| Servers | `/servers` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Proxmox | `/proxmox` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Synology | `/synology` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Proxmox Backup | `/pbs` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Docker | `/docker` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Tailscale | `/tailscale` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Network** | | | | |
| DNS | `/dns` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Domains | `/domains` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| IP Addresses | `/ipam` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Ports | `/ports` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Consistency | `/consistency` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Automation** | | | | |
| Semaphore | `/semaphore` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Gitea | `/gitea` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Secrets | `/secrets` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Operations** | | | | |
| Alerts | `/alerts` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Maintenance | `/maintenance` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Uptime Kuma | `/uptime-kuma` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| osTicket | `/osticket` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Admin Links | `/admin-links` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Generator | `/generator` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| **Administration** | | | | |
| Integrations | `/integrations` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Users | `/users` | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Sessions | `/sessions` | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Audit Log | `/audit-log` | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Diagnostic Log | `/diag-log` | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Settings | `/settings` | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Privacy (footer link, not in a group) | `/privacy` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |

So in practice: **every page is visible to every role except the five
under Administration** — Users, Sessions, and Diagnostic Log need admin;
Audit Log needs operator or admin; Settings needs admin.

## Being able to see a page isn't the same as being able to change things

Almost every page above is visible to viewers, but most of the buttons
on them aren't — a viewer can look at everything but can't act on
anything. Operators can use the page's normal working actions (starting
a container, syncing DNS, adding a secret, opening a maintenance
window…). Some actions on otherwise-viewer-visible pages are held back
even further, to admin only:

- **Integrations & DNS providers**: any operator can use an integration
  once it's configured (start/stop a guest, run a template, sync DNS
  records, etc.), but adding, editing, testing, or deleting an
  integration or DNS provider is admin-only.
- **Servers**: registering a new server, rotating its agent token, and
  editing/deleting a server are admin-only; tagging a server and
  linking/unlinking it to a Proxmox guest just need operator.
- **Tags**: creating, renaming, recoloring, or deleting a tag is
  admin-only (applying an existing tag to a server needs operator).
- **Ports**: everyone can see both the agent-reported and manual tables;
  adding, editing, or deleting a manual port opening needs operator.
- **Admin Links**: everyone can see and open every server's admin
  bookmarks, from that server's own page or the summary page; adding,
  editing, or removing one needs operator, from either place.
- **Generator**: everyone can use it; the name lists it picks server names from
  are edited under Settings → Names, which is admin-only (and so is importing
  names from Skatteverket).
- Everything under **Settings** (notification channels, badge colors,
  display prefs, log retention, backup/restore) is admin-only, matching
  the page itself being admin-only.

If you need the exact role for one specific button rather than this
summary, check the corresponding route in `server/src/routes/` — each
one that needs more than "signed in" calls `requireRole("operator")` or
`requireRole("admin")` right where that action is defined.