# How to manage the permission of indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-the-permission-of-indices/144350>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-the-permission-of-indices/144350 "2018-08-14T12:44:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-the-permission-of-indices/144350/3 "2018-08-15T01:12:22Z")

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You need to create a role for each of the different sets of permissions you want.  
In your case it looks like you need 4 roles.

Then you use role mapping to assign different roles based on the SAML attributes.  
[Haven't we already discussed this?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-saml-integration-while-using-http-redirect/139658/39)

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