Users and authentication concepts

Use this index to separate questions that are easy to conflate: where an identity belongs, how it authenticates, and what roles and attributes mean inside a site.

• Cloud users and site users
• Authentication sessions
• Roles and user attributes

Reader outcome	Focused task
Add or recover a site user	Site users
Change current-user settings	User preferences
Define the access decision itself	Access policies

Organization members and site access are managed only in the Console. Site users can also be managed with the SDKs, Refine, and the REST API.