Database Direct Role

[Jeremy]

Please can someone let me know what role you need to have to be able to see the Database Direct option in the Admin panel?

Thanks in advance.

[Steve Giller]

Only a Super User will have access to the Database Direct option (for hopefully obvious reasons)

[Jeremy]

ah ok, so we have been removing superuser from people, is there a way to change this to a system role?

You can't change any details in there so why is this so pinned down? Is it because it would allow people to look at any requests in the system?

[Steve Giller]

Anyone with Direct Database access can effectively bypass the restrictions on which requests they can see.

Access to Direct Database should be granted to as few people as possible and only then when it is absolutely essential.

[Victor]

11 minutes ago, Jeremy said:

is there a way to change this to a system role?

@Jeremy I'm afraid not, it will remain behind the Super User role. What is the reason why you would need this as a system role to allocate it to users? Why would these users need access to DB?