Permission Groups (Roles) for User Management

[GeekStreetSolutions]

Add support for reusable permission groups (roles) that can be assigned to users instead of managing permissions individually.

Problem

As the number of users grows, managing permissions becomes increasingly difficult. While Seerr supports bulk editing, it currently replaces the entire permission set for each selected user. This makes it cumbersome to apply a single permission change (such as enabling Issue Reporting) without recreating each user's existing permission configuration.

For servers with multiple user types (family, friends, trusted users, administrators, etc.), this can quickly become difficult to maintain.

Proposed Solution

Allow administrators to create reusable permission groups (roles) that define a complete permission set.

Examples:

• Administrator

  • Full access

• Trusted User

  • Auto-approve requests
  • Issue reporting
  • Standard user permissions

• Standard User

  • Manual approval
  • Issue reporting
  • Standard user permissions

• Guest

  • Manual approval
  • Limited permissions

Each user would simply be assigned to one of these groups.

Benefits

• Centralized permission management.
• Consistent permissions across similar users.
• New users can be configured with a single click.
• Updating a permission (for example, enabling Issue Reporting) only requires editing the group instead of every individual user.
• Reduces the risk of accidentally overwriting custom permission sets during bulk edits.
• Scales much better for servers with many users.

Optional Enhancements

• Allow custom permission groups to be created, renamed, duplicated, and deleted.
• Display the assigned permission group in the Users list.
• Allow Bulk Edit to change a user's assigned permission group.
• Continue supporting per-user permission overrides for advanced cases.

Why This Matters

Permission groups are a common administrative feature that simplifies long-term user management. Instead of treating every user as a unique configuration, administrators can organize users into logical roles while making future permission changes significantly easier and less error-prone.

[M0NsTeRRR]

f you have too many users, there is an API designed specifically for this purpose. You can build your own custom layer on top of it to meet your needs.

We don’t want to add roles because, inevitably, users will start requesting nested roles, role weights, and other complexities. User management is simple and allows you to manage permissions exactly as you need.