Adding Project Members

If you want to provide a user with access and permissions to specific projects and resources within a cluster, assign the user a project membership.

Tip: Want to provide a user with access to all projects within a cluster? See Adding Cluster Members instead.

There are two contexts where you can add project members:

• Adding Members to a New Project

You can add members to a project as you create it (recommended if possible).

• Adding Members to an Existing Project

You can always add members to a project later. See below.

Adding Members to an Existing project

Following project creation, you can add users as project members so that they can access its resources.

• From the Global view, open the project that you want to add members to.

• From the main menu, select Members. Then click Add Member.

• Search for the user or group that you want to add to the project.

If external authentication is configured:

• Rancher returns users from your external authentication source as you type.

• A drop-down allows you to add groups instead of individual users. The dropdown only lists groups that you, the logged in user, are included in.

Note: If you are logged in as a local user, external users do not display in your search results.

• Assign the user or group Project roles.

What are Project Roles?

Tip: For Custom Roles, you can modify the list of individual roles available for assignment.

• To add roles to the list, Add a Custom Role.
• To remove roles from the list, Lock/Unlock Roles.

Result: The chosen users are added to the project.

• To revoke project membership, select the user and click Delete. This action deletes membership, not the user.
• To modify a user’s roles in the project, delete them from the project, and then re-add them with modified roles.