# User and Role

A **user** is identified by an account and a set of credentials, provided by administrators.

Every action in AURA is performed by a user account. Depending on their role, a **user has different
permissions**.

## User roles

Some user account typically has one of these roles assigned:

- **Host**<br/>
  Typically a host is a person belonging to the editorial staff. Depending on the radio
  station a host has different permissions. Such permissions can allow full show administration
  or only certain rights on show or episode level. Hosts can also be only guests on certain
  episodes of shows they do not belong to (so called _contributors_). Such hosts have no login
  credentials and are mainly presented on the website description.<br/><br/>
- **Program Manager**<br/>
  A program coordinator is the manager of a radio stations program.
  It is in charge of organising the overall program plan, involving schedules, consistency in
  show and episode information and other content quality assurence duties.<br/><br/>
- **Radio Station Administrator**<br/>
  This is a superuser, typically part of the IT team. Radio Station
  Administrators are in charge of keeping the system up and running, performing updates and doing
  certain low level operations.<br/><br/>

In addition to these roles, users **can also have a set of individual permissions**.

## Create user account

Users and their roles are configured in the [radio station administration](../admin/index.md).

In order to create users, assign roles or modify individual permissions,
**contact your administrator**.