How to Grant Full Administrator Access to Another User in Foundry

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Hey everyone,

I’m currently working in Palantir Foundry and need to assign full administrator-level access to another user. The goal is to give this user the exact same permissions and control that an owner or existing admin has—essentially, they should be able to do everything from managing user roles and access, to editing assets, creating objects, changing settings, managing Ontology, and accessing every part of the platform.

I’ve looked through some documentation but still not sure what the exact steps are to:

  1. Grant full platform-wide access (including Ontology, Code Repositories, Workspace, etc.)
  2. Ensure this user can perform any administrative task that the original owner can
  3. Confirm whether there’s a specific Foundry role/group I need to assign, or if it’s a matter of adding multiple roles manually

Is there a best-practice or recommended way to do this cleanly and securely?

Would really appreciate a step-by-step guide or a link to detailed docs if available. :folded_hands:

Thanks in advance!

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hey again.

currently i believe the best way of doing this is by creating an ‘admin group’ (bottom left account → settings → groups), and granting the owner role to the admin group for all of your projects (when in a project click the padlock at the right to see and configure role grants).

you can also create a project template (control panel → project templates at the left → new template) and configure your admin group to be owner. that way all newly created projects from the template will have the admin group as an owner.

let me know if that doesn’t make sense.

angus

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Hey there Kumar,

Getting started • Checking permissions • Palantir

check out the documentation on Concepts • Organizations and spaces • Palantir you can create broad permissions within an organization (Discoverer, Viewer, Editor)

or get granular with Management • Manage roles • Palantir
Concepts • Markings • Palantir

As the Admin you and your user can add your own checkpoints to your ontology.
Getting started • Requesting justification for sensitive actions • Palantir