Access control

Изменено в версии 3.0: Before Weblate 3.0, the privilege system was based on Django, but is now specifically built for Weblate. If you are using an older version, please the consult documentation for that version, the information here will not apply.

Weblate comes with a fine grained privilege system to assign user permissions for the whole instance, or in a limited scope.

The permission system based on groups and roles, where roles define a set of permissions, and groups assign them to users and translations, see Users, roles, groups and permissions for more details.

After installation a default set of groups is created, and you can use those to assign users roles for the whole instance (see Default groups and roles). Additionally when Per project access control is turned on, you can assign users to specific translation projects. More fine-grained configuration can be achieved using Custom access control

Common setups

Locking down Weblate

To completely lock down your Weblate installation, you can use LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS to force users to log in and REGISTRATION_OPEN to prevent new registrations.

Site wide permissions

To manage permissions for a whole instance, just add users to Users (this is done by default using the Automatic group assignments), Reviewers and Managers groups. Keep all projects configured as Public (see Per project access control).

Per project permissions

Set your projects to Protected or Private, and manage users per project in the Weblate interface.

Adding permissions to languages, projects or component sets

You can additionally grant permissions to any user based on project, language or a component set. To achieve this, create a new group (e.g. Czech translators) and configure it for a given resource. Any assigned permissions will be granted to members of that group for selected resources.

This will work just fine without additional setup, if using per project permissions. For permissions on the whole instance, you will probably also want to remove these permissions from the Users group, or change automatic assignment of all users to that group (see Automatic group assignments).

Per project access control

Примечание

By enabling ACL, all users are prohibited from accessing anything within a given project, unless you add the permissions for them to do just that.

You can limit user’s access to individual projects. This feature is turned on by Access control in the configuration of each respective project. This automatically creates several groups for this project, see Predefined groups.

The following choices exist for Access control:

Public
Publicly visible and translatable
Protected
Publicly visible, but translatable only for selected users
Private
Visible and translatable only for selected users
Custom
Weblate does not manage users, see Custom access control.
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To allow access to this project, you have to add the privilege either directly to the given user, or group of users in the Django admin interface, or by using user management on the project page, as described in Managing per project access control.

Примечание

Even with ACL turned on, some summary info will be available about your project:

  • Statistics for the whole instance, including counts for all projects.
  • Language summary for the whole instance, including counts for all projects.

Automatic group assignments

You can set up Weblate to automatically add users to groups based on their email addresses. This automatic assignment happens only at the time of account creation.

This can be set up in the Django admin interface (in the Accounts section).

Примечание

The automatic group assignment for the Users and Viewers groups will always be created by Weblate upon migrations, in case you want to turn it off, simply set the regular expression to ^$, which will never match.

Users, roles, groups and permissions

The authentication models consist of several objects:

Permission
Individual permissions defined by Weblate. You can not assign individual permissions, this can only be done through assignment of roles.
Role
Role defines a set of permissions. This allows reuse of these sets in several places, and makes the administration easier.
User
Users can be members of several groups.
Group
Groups connect roles, users and authentication objects (projects, languages and component lists).

graph auth { "User" -- "Group"; "Group" -- "Role"; "Role" -- "Permission"; "Group" -- "Project"; "Group" -- "Language"; "Group" -- "Component list"; }

Permission checking

Whenever a permission is checked to decide whether one is able to perform a given action, the check is carried out according to scope, and the following checks are performed:

Project

Compared against the scope of the project, if not set, this matches no project.

You can use Project selection to automate inclusion of all projects.

Component list

The scope component is matched against this list, if not set, this is ignored.

Obviously this has no effect when checking access of the project scope, so you will have to grant access to view all projects in a component list by other means. By default this is achieved through the use of the Viewers group, see Default groups and roles).

Language

Compared against scope of translations, if not set, this matches no language.

You can use Language selection to automate inclusion of all languages.

Checking access to a project

A user has to be a member of a group linked to the project. Only membership is enough, no specific permissions are needed to access a project (this is used in the default Viewers group, see Default groups and roles).

Managing users and groups

All users and groups can be managed using the Django admin interface, available under /admin/ URL.

Managing per project access control

Примечание

This feature only works for ACL controlled projects, see Per project access control.

Users with the Can manage ACL rules for a project privilege (see Access control) can also manage users in projects with access control turned on through the project page. You can add users, or remove them from a project, or make them owners of it.

The user management is available in the Tools menu of a project:

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См.также

Per project access control

Predefined groups

Weblate comes with a predefined set of groups for a project, wherefrom you can assign users.

Administration

Has all permissions available in the project.

Glossary

Can manage glossary (add or remove entries, or upload).

Languages

Can manage translated languages - add or remove translations.

Screenshots

Can manage screenshots - add or remove them, and associate them to source strings.

Template

Can edit translation templates in Monolingual components and source string info.

Translate

Can translate the project, and upload translations made offline.

VCS

Can manage VCS and access the exported repository.

Review

Can approve translations during review.

Billing

Can access billing info (see Billing).

Custom access control

By choosing Custom as Access control, Weblate will stop managing access for a given project, and you can set up custom rules in the Django admin interface. This can be used to define more complex access control, or set up a shared access policy for all projects in a single Weblate instance. If you want to enable this for all projects by default, please configure the DEFAULT_ACCESS_CONTROL.

Предупреждение

By turning this on, Weblate will remove all Per project access control it has created for this project. If you are doing this without admin permission from the instance, you will instantly loose your access to manage the project.

Default groups and roles

List of privileges

Billing (see Billing)
View billing info [Administration, Billing]
Changes
Download changes [Administration]
Comments
Post comment [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate] Delete comment [Administration]
Component
Edit component settings [Administration] Lock component, preventing it from being translated [Administration]
Glossary
Add glossary entry [Administration, Manage glossary, Power user] Edit glossary entry [Administration, Manage glossary, Power user] Delete glossary entry [Administration, Manage glossary, Power user] Upload glossary entries [Administration, Manage glossary, Power user]
Machinery
Use machine translation services [Administration, Power user]
Projects
Edit project settings [Administration] Manage project access [Administration]
Reports
Download reports [Administration]
Screenshots
Add screenshot [Administration, Manage screenshots] Edit screenshot [Administration, Manage screenshots] Delete screenshot [Administration, Manage screenshots]
Source strings
Edit source string info [Administration, Edit source]
Strings
Add new strings [Administration] Ignore failing checks [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate] Edit strings [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate] Review strings [Administration, Review strings] Edit string when suggestions are enforced [Administration, Review strings] Edit source strings [Administration, Edit source, Power user]
Suggestions
Accept suggestions [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate] Add suggestions [Add suggestion, Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate] Delete suggestions [Administration] Vote on suggestions [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate]
Translations
Start new translation [Administration, Manage languages, Power user] Perform automatic translation [Administration, Manage languages] Delete existing translations [Administration, Manage languages] Start translation into a new language [Administration, Manage languages]
Uploads
Define author of translation upload [Administration] Overwrite existing strings with an upload [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate] Upload translation strings [Administration, Edit source, Power user, Review strings, Translate]
VCS
Access the internal repository [Access repository, Administration, Manage repository, Power user] Commit changes to the internal repository [Administration, Manage repository] Push change from the internal repository [Administration, Manage repository] Reset changes in the internal repository [Administration, Manage repository] View upstream repository location [Access repository, Administration, Manage repository, Power user] Update the internal repository [Administration, Manage repository]
Global privileges
Use management interface (global) Add language definitions (global) Manage language definitions (global) Add groups (global) Manage groups (global) Add users (global) Manage users (global) Manage whiteboard (global) Manage translation memory (global)

Примечание

The global privileges are not granted to any default role. These are powerful and they are quite close to the superuser status - most of them can affect all projects on your Weblate installation.

List of groups

The following groups are created upon installation (or after executing setupgroups):

Guests

Defines permissions for non authenticated users.

This group contains only anonymous users (see ANONYMOUS_USER_NAME).

You can remove roles from this group to limit permissions for non authenticated users.

Default roles: Add suggestion, Access repository

Viewers

This role ensures visibility of public projects for all users. By default all users are members of this group.

By default all users are members of this group, using Automatic group assignments.

Default roles: none

Users

Default group for all users.

By default all users are members of this group using Automatic group assignments.

Default roles: Power user

Reviewers

Group for reviewers (see Translation workflows).

Default roles: Review strings

Managers

Group for administrators.

Default roles: Administration

Предупреждение

Never remove the predefined Weblate groups and users, this can lead to unexpected problems. If you do not want to use these features, just remove all privileges from them.