# Managing permissions You use permissions and permission sets to manage access to Tonic Textual features and functions. ## Learn about permission sets and permissions


About permissions and permission sets Learn how user access works in Textual.	/pages/yUZP4DWr21JHE49nRBp3
Built-in permission sets and permissions Lists of the global and dataset permission sets and permissions that come with Textual.	/pages/3FNmwUpdpNaM8ZAqqptK

## View and configure permission sets


View the permission sets View the lists of global and dataset sets.	/pages/NpOpWAMR0xnf8d9vTqle
Configure custom permission sets Create and assign permissions to your own global and dataset sets.	/pages/TrH9yNliiTvrGkKuQDnh
Select default permission sets Select the global permission set for all users, and the permission sets for database creators.	/pages/t2XckiNGV8zfVBjDegdz

## Assign global permission sets


Grant access to global permission sets Assign users and groups to global permission sets.	/pages/cVq714lZLGlDuC3vfXyY
Set the initial admin access Use an environment variable to grant the initial access to all global permissions.	/pages/f8c8bN8wUeKA3om2Hc3r

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