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Teams Predefined Roles

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Teams come with six predefined roles which cover common use cases for levels of access.

The predefined roles are owner, biller, billing viewer, member, modifier, and resource viewer. Each role has a different set of permissions:

Role	Shared Resources	Billing Information	Team Settings
Owner	Full access	Full access	Full access
Biller	No access	Full access	No access
Billing Viewer	No access	Limited read only	No access
Member	Full access	No access	Read only
Modifier	Full access except delete	No access	Read only
Resource Viewer	Read only	No access	Read only

Shared resources include DigitalOcean infrastructure components and some team resources:

All DigitalOcean resources, like Droplets, volumes, and managed databases
The resources on the Security tab of the Settings page:
- Public SSH keys uploaded to the team
- SSL certificates uploaded to the team
- Security history
Referral codes
API-authorized applications
Support tickets

Billing information includes everything on the Billing page tabs, like payment methods and promos. However, billing viewers cannot view billing settings on the Settings tab.

Team settings includes the settings on the Team tab of the Settings page:

Team membership
Team roles
Team name
Contact emails (team, billing, and security)
Secure sign-in
Droplet limit

Personal access tokens for the API are unique to the people who generated them. The permissions of your team role control the scopes available to your API tokens.

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