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Is there a word for this pattern?
Some online services handle the "multiple users per organization && multiple organizations per user" situation in the following way:
A user logs in with their individual account and then chooses (typically from a menu in the upper right) which "team" they want want to currently be acting in. A team might correspond to a company, or to a department within a company, or whatever: it's some organization that the user is associated with. So instead of people logging in with a role account that represents the team, they log in as themselves and then "wear a cloak" that lets them act on the team's behalf (within whatever permissions the team admin has granted to that particular member). Naturally, a user can be associated with multiple teams, and those teams don't all have to know about each other -- maybe only the user knows them all.
Is there a name for this pattern? I'm going with "PAMT" ("Personal Account Multiple Teams") for now, but if there's already a widely-used term I'd like to know it.
Some online services handle the "multiple users per organization && multiple organizations per user" situation in the following way:
A user logs in with their individual account and then chooses (typically from a menu in the upper right) which "team" they want want to currently be acting in. A team might correspond to a company, or to a department within a company, or whatever: it's some organization that the user is associated with. So instead of people logging in with a role account that represents the team, they log in as themselves and then "wear a cloak" that lets them act on the team's behalf (within whatever permissions the team admin has granted to that particular member). Naturally, a user can be associated with multiple teams, and those teams don't all have to know about each other -- maybe only the user knows them all.
Is there a name for this pattern? I'm going with "PAMT" ("Personal Account Multiple Teams") for now, but if there's already a widely-used term I'd like to know it.
I know that as adopting a "role" for specific actions
and each user account can be assigned zero-to-many "role"s by some authorisation administrator.
@bignose Sure, that describes the feature. I'm looking for the label, not the description, though. Not every service supports this way of working. For those that do, I want to be able to say, for example, "Oh, Digital Ocean supports PAMT" or "FooBar Inc doesn't do PAMT, so you just have to use a role account."
Right, you're looking for an established name for the pattern. Don't know of one, sorry.
(It's related to "role based access control", which is an established term in authorisation)