Users and organizations
Manage organizations, user accounts, platform roles, and signup protection for a self-hosted deployment.
User and organization administration is an in-product setting. It lives under Admin, applies at runtime, and never requires a chart change or a redeploy — on Helm or on Embedded Cluster alike.
Manage organizations
Section titled “Manage organizations”Use Admin → Organizations to view, create, or delete organizations across the deployment. When creating an organization, set its owner and maximum member count.
If the owner email has no account, Dreadnode creates the organization and active owner membership, then emails a one-time account setup link. The owner sets a password through that link and signs in to the organization you created. Account setup preserves the existing organization, workspace, roles, and credits instead of creating a second organization during onboarding.
Use Settings → General for changes that belong to one organization, such as its display name.
To add or remove an organization’s owners, open the organization and select Edit Organization. An organization always keeps at least one owner. Removing an owner takes effect as soon as you confirm it, whether or not you save the rest of the dialog. The person loses access to the organization, and workspaces they solely own in it are deleted. Their account is kept; to remove the account itself, delete the user from Admin → Users.
Manage users
Section titled “Manage users”Use Admin → Users to search across the deployment and inspect a user’s account state, organization memberships, and platform role.
From a user detail page, you can:
- verify an email address
- grant or revoke platform-admin access
- delete the account
You cannot change your own platform role or modify a platform owner’s role. Only a platform owner can revoke platform-admin access from another administrator.
Protect signups
Section titled “Protect signups”Use Admin → Security to:
- limit signups from one IP address within a 24-hour period
- block signup traffic from specific IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR ranges
- allow signup traffic only from specific IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR ranges
- allow or block individual disposable email domains
The signup IP policy defaults to Deny configured networks. Select Allow only configured networks to require every self-service email or OAuth signup to match an allow rule. Deny rules remain active in both modes and take precedence when an address matches both lists. Requests that pass the network policy still count toward the rolling 24-hour signup limit.
Enterprise deployments allow 1,000 signups per IP address in each rolling 24-hour window by default. This higher limit supports teams that share one public address through a corporate NAT. SaaS deployments default to 3 signups per IP address. Change the limit under Admin → Security; the saved value persists across restarts and redeployments.
Related
Section titled “Related”- First admin account — claiming platform ownership on a fresh install
- Authentication and email — SMTP, OAuth providers, and signup policy