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id: admin-api-permissions title: Managing permissions sidebar_label: “Permissions” description: Learn how to manage permissions using Pulsar CLI and admin APIs.

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:::tip

This page only shows some frequently used operations.

• For the latest and complete information about Pulsar admin, including commands, flags, descriptions, and more, see Pulsar admin docs.

• For the latest and complete information about REST API, including parameters, responses, samples, and more, see {@inject: rest:REST:/} API doc.

• For the latest and complete information about Java admin API, including classes, methods, descriptions, and more, see Java admin API doc.

:::

Pulsar allows you to grant namespace-level or topic-level permission to users.

• If you grant namespace-level permission to a user, then the user can access all the topics under the namespace.

• If you grant topic-level permission to a user, then the user can access only the topic.

The chapters below demonstrate how to grant namespace-level permissions to users. For how to grant topic-level permissions to users, see manage topics.

Grant permissions

You can grant permissions to specific roles for lists of operations such as produce and consume.

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Use the [`grant-permission`](/reference/#/@pulsar:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/namespaces?id=grant-permission) subcommand and specify a namespace, actions using the `--actions` flag, and a role using the `--role` flag:

```shell
pulsar-admin namespaces grant-permission test-tenant/namespace1 \
    --actions produce,consume \
    --role admin10
```

Wildcard authorization can be performed when `authorizationAllowWildcardsMatching` is set to `true` in `broker.conf`.

**Example**

```shell
pulsar-admin namespaces grant-permission test-tenant/namespace1 \
      --actions produce,consume \
      --role 'my.role.*'
```

Then, roles `my.role.1`, `my.role.2`, `my.role.foo`, `my.role.bar`, etc. can produce and consume.

```shell
pulsar-admin namespaces grant-permission test-tenant/namespace1 \
      --actions produce,consume \
      --role '*.role.my'
```

Then, roles `1.role.my`, `2.role.my`, `foo.role.my`, `bar.role.my`, etc. can produce and consume.

:::note

A wildcard matching works at **the beginning or end of the role name only**.

:::

**Example**

```shell
pulsar-admin namespaces grant-permission test-tenant/namespace1 \
      --actions produce,consume \
      --role 'my.*.role'
```

In this case, only the role `my.*.role` has permissions.
Roles `my.1.role`, `my.2.role`, `my.foo.role`, `my.bar.role`, etc. **cannot** produce and consume.

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/Namespaces_grantPermissionOnNamespace)

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```java
admin.namespaces().grantPermissionOnNamespace(namespace, role, getAuthActions(actions));
```

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Get permissions

You can see which permissions have been granted to which roles in a namespace.

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Use the [`permissions`](/reference/#/@pulsar:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/namespaces?id=grant-permission) subcommand and specify a namespace:

```shell
pulsar-admin namespaces permissions test-tenant/namespace1
```

Example output:

```
my.role.*    [produce, consume]
```

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/Namespaces_getPermissions)

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```java
admin.namespaces().getPermissions(namespace);
```

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Revoke permissions

You can revoke permissions from specific roles, which means that those roles will no longer have access to the specified namespace.

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Use the [`revoke-permission`](/reference/#/@pulsar:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/namespaces?id=revoke-permission) subcommand and specify a namespace and a role using the `--role` flag:

```shell
pulsar-admin namespaces revoke-permission test-tenant/namespace1 \
      --role admin10
```

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/Namespaces_revokePermissionsOnNamespace)

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```java
admin.namespaces().revokePermissionsOnNamespace(namespace, role);
```

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