Click the pen icon to edit user information.

You can enter a new email address, name, and change their password. Click Save to confirm changes.

Delete user

To delete a user account, click the corresponding trash icon (located on the same line as the user account you want to delete).

Set global permissions for a user

 Global permissions apply to the whole LimeSurvey application. If you want to set permissions only for a specific survey, you can use the survey permission settings.

To set global permissions for a user, click the lock symbol.

The CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) system is employed (as it is in the survey permission settings). For more user permission options, we recommend extending the matrix using the double-right arrowhead, which is located in its upper right corner. If you check the first box, all the CRUD permissions in that row are automatically checked.

You can now add or remove the following permissions:

• Participant panel: For more details, continue reading about the central participant database.
  

• Label sets: Permission to create, view, update, delete, export, and import label sets. The label sets do not have specific permissions (unlike themes).
  

• Settings & Plugins: With this permission a user can check data integrity, save the SQL database to an .sql file, manage global settings, view the PHP info in the global settings, and manage all plugins.
  

• Survey groups (New in 4.4.0 ): Give access to all surveys' group. To allow user to manage their own surveys' group, give the user the 'create' permission. A creator of a surveys' group are (by default) the owner of this surveys' group.
  

Permission on a surveys' group does not give all rights on surveys, but a user can give rights on all surveys in surveys' group

• Surveys: Gives access to all surveys. To allow a user to only create and manage their own survey, give the user the 'create' permission. A creator of a survey is the owner of the survey and will always be able to manage it. Remember that each survey can grant different permissions .
  

The global permission is applied before the survey-specific permission!

• Themes: Allows the user to use all the available design themes and edit all non-standard themes. A person with this right should have sufficient knowledge in terms of HTML, Javascript, and CSS. If a user is not familiar with these things and is supposed to use a specific design themes, it would be better to only give them 'read' permission. Each theme can have specific permissions.
  

• User groups: Allows a user to create/view/update/delete user groups.
  

• Users: A user can create, modify, and delete his own administration users with this permission. The newly created users cannot have higher permissions than the parent user. You will also not be able to edit users owned by other administration users. If this has to be done, then a Super-administrator permission must be granted.
  

• Super-administrator: Can only be added by other Super-administrator with this setting as update and grants full permission to the whole LimeSurvey application.

• Use internal database authentication: allows users to access LimeSurvey's panel via the authentication page (e.g., http://domain/admin/authentication/sa/login). If it is unchecked and the respective user tries to connect to LimeSuvey's panel, he will get the following error: 'Internal database authentication method is not allowed for this user'.
  

 All the permissions mentioned above that belong to the forced super administrator cannot be removed via the GUI.

Set theme permissions for a user

With theme permissions, you can decide which design themes a user can select when creating or editing a survey. 

If you have specific design themes for a group of users or customers, you can restrict their access to other themes to ensure that they use only themes created for them.

To set or edit the themes permissions for a user, click the pen-and-lock symbol for design themes.

Select the design themes to which the respective user or user groups should have access. After you finished your selection or deselection, do not forget to Click Save: .

To better understand this function, view the examples provided below.

Use one-time passwords

The URL has to contain the following variables:

• user: The username normally used to login into LimeSurvey. This username has to exist in the 'users' table of the database.
  
• onepass: The plain text password which is then compared to the password in the 'users' table
  
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A valid URL to login using a one-time password will look like this:

 The 'secretpassword' field is plain text, not a SHA 256 hash.

Things to watch out for:

• The passed username has to exist in LimeSurvey's users table.
  
• The one-time password (which can be set via an external application) has to be stored as MD5 hash in column one_time_pw of table users.
  
• (This should be ignored except "Both passwords have to match") The passed plain text password will be hashed using the sha256 function and will then be compared to the stored hash in column one_time_pw of table users. Both passwords have to match.
  
• After the first login with the one-time password, it gets deleted from the database. The user won't be able to log in anymore with that respective password a second time.
  
• My local LS system can't test the permissions with different accounts (my email password does not have a way to be connected).
  

Set permissions for a single survey

  Attention : An existing user account is required to set permissions for a single survey. If the account doesn't exist, you have to create it first and then change the survey permissions. The same applies to offering survey permissions to a user group. Besides the necessity to have one created, you also need to add at least one user to that group in order to be able to select it and grant it survey permissions.

 By default, an user (non-admin) cannot grant survey permissions to users that are not part of the same group as the survey administrator. This is a security option enabled by default in LimeSurvey. To change this, you need to deactivate option  Group member can only see own group, located in the Global settings, under the Security tab. However, if you feel unsure about disabling this option, you can create groups containing those users that can be seen and be granted survey permissions by a survey creator.

To change the survey permissions, click the Settings tab. Then, click Survey permissions and choose to whom would you like to offer permissions. The rights can be offered either separately to specific users or to a user group.

Grant survey permissions to a user

In the next step, select the user that will receive survey rights and click Add user.

After you click Set survey permissions, the user's survey permissions matrix will be shown.

You can set in this matrix the user's survey permissions. Checking a box grants survey permissions to the respective user. If you click a checkbox from the first column, all the rights of the corresponding line will be selected/removed.

Click the double-right arrowhead to access the extended version of the matrix to choose specifically the actions that can be performed by a user. After you finished editing the survey permissions, click Save, which is located in the upper right corner of the screen.

Some examples are provided below in order to help you get a better understanding of LimeSurvey's survey permissions system.

Grant survey permissions to a user group

Click add a user group and select the user group to which you would like to add the permission rights.

In the next step, select the permissions that you will allocate to the members of that user group. Do not forget to click the double right arrowhead to get an extended view of the permissions matrix.

After you have finished editing the survey permissions, click Save, which is located in the upper right part of the screen.

Some examples are provided below in order to help you get a better understanding of LimeSurvey's survey permissions system.