{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control",
  "title": "Data access control",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/",
  "summary": "Control who can access your databases using the default user database password and role-based access control.",
  "tags": [
    "docs",
    "operate",
    "rc"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-09-25T14:59:57+01:00",
  "children": [
    {
      "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/default-user",
      "summary": "Learn how to change your default user password or turn off access using the default user password.",
      "title": "Default user",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/default-user/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/role-based-access-control",
      "summary": "Lets you define multiple users with fine-grained data authorization features.",
      "title": "Enable Role-based access control",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/role-based-access-control/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/configure-acls",
      "summary": "",
      "title": "Configure permissions with Redis ACLs",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/configure-acls/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/create-roles",
      "summary": "",
      "title": "Assign permissions to roles",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/create-roles/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/create-assign-users",
      "summary": "Create a database user and assign it a role.",
      "title": "Create and edit database users",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/create-assign-users/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/active-active-roles",
      "summary": "",
      "title": "Create roles for Active-Active databases",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/active-active-roles/"
    }
  ],
  "page_type": "content",
  "content_hash": "6fecbe1548db4ab270cdab662b66ffab9463353889bd1ac2d2a4296e0af6c526",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "default-user",
      "title": "Default user",
      "role": "overview",
      "text": "When you create a Redis Cloud database, your database is given a randomly generated password called the [**Default user password**](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/default-user). Learn how to [change the default user password](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/default-user#change-password) or [turn off default user access](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/default-user#turn-off-default-user)."
    },
    {
      "id": "role-based-access-control",
      "title": "Role-based access control",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "With [role-based access control (RBAC)](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/role-based-access-control), you create roles and assign users to those roles to grant different levels of access to the database.\n\n- [Enable RBAC](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/role-based-access-control)\n- [Configure ACLs](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/configure-acls)\n- [Create roles](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/create-roles)\n- [Create and edit database users](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/create-assign-users)\n- [Active-Active roles](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rc/security/access-control/data-access-control/active-active-roles)"
    }
  ],
  "examples": []
}