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Title: Create roles with combined access
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description: Create roles with both cluster and database access.
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To create a role that grants database access privileges and allows access to the Cluster Management UI and REST API:

1. [Define Redis ACLs](#define-redis-acls) that determine database access privileges.

1. [Create a role with ACLs](#create-role) added and choose a **Cluster management role** other than **None**.

## Define Redis ACLs

To define a Redis ACL rule that you can assign to a role:

1. From **Access Control > Redis ACLs**, you can either:

    - Point to a Redis ACL and select {{< image filename="/images/rs/buttons/edit-button.png#no-click" alt="The Edit button" width="25px" class="inline" >}} to edit an existing Redis ACL.

    - Select **+ Add Redis ACL** to create a new Redis ACL.

1. Enter a descriptive name for the Redis ACL. This will be used to associate the ACL rule with the role.

1. Define the ACL rule. For more information about Redis ACL rules and syntax, see the [Redis ACL overview]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.4/security/access-control/redis-acl-overview">}}).

    {{<note>}}
The **ACL builder** does not support selectors and key permissions. Use **Free text command** to manually define them instead.
    {{</note>}}

1. Select **Save**.

{{<note>}}
For multi-key commands on multi-slot keys, the return value is `failure`, but the command runs on the keys that are allowed.
{{</note>}}

## Create roles with ACLs and cluster access {#create-role}

To create a role that grants database access privileges and allows access to the Cluster Management UI and REST API:

1. From **Access Control** > **Roles**, you can:

    - Point to a role and select {{< image filename="/images/rs/buttons/edit-button.png#no-click" alt="The Edit button" width="25px" class="inline" >}} to edit an existing role.

    - Select **+ Add role** to create a new role.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/access-control-role-panel.png" alt="Add role with name">}}

1. Enter a descriptive name for the role. This will be used to reference the role when configuring users.

1. Choose a **Cluster management role** other than **None**. For details about permissions granted by each role, see [Cluster Manager UI permissions]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.4/security/access-control/create-cluster-roles#cluster-manager-ui-permissions">}}) and [REST API permissions]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.4/references/rest-api/permissions">}}).

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/rbac-create-combined-role-select-cm-role.png" alt="Add role with name">}}
    
1. Select **+ Add ACL**.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/access-control-role-acl.png" alt="Add role database acl">}}

1.  Choose a Redis ACL and databases to associate with the role.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/access-control-role-databases.png" alt="Add databases to access">}}

1. Select the check mark {{< image filename="/images/rs/buttons/checkmark-button.png#no-click" alt="The Check button" width="25px" class="inline" >}} to confirm.

1. Select **Save**.

    {{<image filename="images/rs/screenshots/access-control/rbac-save-combined-role.png" alt="Add databases to access">}}

You can [assign the new role to users]({{<relref "/operate/rs/7.4/security/access-control/create-users#assign-roles-to-users">}}) to grant database access and access to the Cluster Manager UI and REST API.