---
title: "The SXA security roles"
slug: "the-sxa-security-roles"
abstract: "The roles and permissions that you can set for SXA users"
---
# The SXA security roles

Security roles give your users different access rights to different areas of tenants and sites. Once you [set up security for a tenant and site](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/103/sitecore-experience-accelerator/set-up-security-for-a-tenant-and-a-site.html "Set up security for a tenant and a site"), SXA automatically adds the SXA Admin, SXA Author, and SXA Designer roles into the SXA domain. These roles inherit Sitecore roles and are used to base the following Tenant and Site roles on:

- Tenant Member
- Tenant Author
- Tenant Designer
- Tenant Admin
- Site Member
- Site Author
- Site Designer
- Site Admin

The following table describes the general SXA roles and their rights for working with tenants:

|  | Tenant Member | Tenant Author | Tenant Designer | Tenant Admin |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant |  |  |  | Write (including descendants) |
| sitecore\Media Library\Project\Tenant |  |  |  | Write (including descendants) |
| sitecore\Media Library\Project\Tenant\Site\shared | Write for descendants |  |  |  |
| sitecore\Media Library\Themes\Tenant\Site\ |  |  | Write for descendants | Write (including descendants) |
| Sitecore\templates\Project\Tenant |  |  | Write for descendants | Write (including descendants) |

The following table describes the general SXA roles and their rights for working with sites:

|  | Site Member | Site Author | Site Designer | Site Admin |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site |  |  |  | Write (including descendants) |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site\Home |  | Write (including descendants)<br><br>No right to delete or rename |  |  |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site\ Media |  | Write for descendants |  |  |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site\Data |  | Write for descendants |  |  |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site\Presentation |  |  | Write for descendants |  |
| sitecore\Content\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site\Settings |  |  |  |  |
| sitecore\Media Library\Project\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site | Write for descendants |  |  | Write (including descendants) |
| sitecore\Media Library\Themes\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site |  |  | Write for descendants | Write (including descendants) |
| sitecore\Media Library\Themes\Tenant folder\Tenant\Site folder\Site\Theme |  |  |  |  |