# Does RBAC requires License?

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/does-rbac-requires-license/90421>\
**Category:** Authentication\
**Created:** [June 27, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/does-rbac-requires-license/90421 "2023-06-27T12:13:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![mageshkumarvenugopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@mageshkumarvenugopal](https://community.grafana.com/u/mageshkumarvenugopal)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/does-rbac-requires-license/90421/1 "2023-06-27T12:13:30Z")

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- What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?

Grafana version: Version 9.5.3 (commit: 916d9793aa, branch: HEAD) - open source  
OS & version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa)

- **What** are you trying to achieve?

Trying to implement RBAC

- **How** are you trying to achieve it?  
enabled RBAC in grafana.ini  
[rbac]  
enabled: true  
permission\_cache: true

* * *

Using file provisioning method - /etc/grafana/provisioning/access-control

# config file version

apiVersion: 2

# Roles to insert/update in the database

roles:

- name: ‘custom:users:goc’  
description: ‘List/update other users in the organization’  
version: 1  
global: true  
permissions:
  - action: ‘dashboards:read’  
scope: ‘dashboards:_’ 'folders:_’
  - action: ‘alert.instances.external:read’  
scope: ‘datasources:\*’
  - action: ‘alert.instances:create’
  - action: ‘alert.instances:write’
  - action: ‘alert.instances:read’

# Assignments to teams

teams:

- name: ‘GOC’  
orgId: 1  
roles:
# Custom role assignment

  - name: ‘custom:users:goc’  
global: true

- What happened?

no custom role visible in UI

- What did you **expect** to happen?

- Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

- Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us **exactly** what they were.

- Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?