Checking Data Access

Overview

This document provides guidance on how to check and verify user and team permissions in the WUSM Data Lake. It includes tools and methods for auditing access and ensuring compliance with data governance policies.

Tools for Checking Access

Datalake Permissions Dashboard

The Datalake Permissions Dashboard allows administrators to:

• View permissions for users and teams.
• Drill into specific objects to see access levels.

Group Membership Checker

The Group Membership Checker notebook provides insights into:

• User group memberships.
• Access levels for each group.

How to Check What Schema a User Can Access

We have a dashboard available to data lake administrators that allows us to easily see what permissions a given team or user has access to. The Datalake Permissions dashboard let's you select a user or team, and then drill into various objects in the data lake to see what permissions the selected user/group has to the given object.

To see what groups a user is a member of you can use the Group Membership Checkernotebook to get a quick look at a user's group membership and access.