Namespace owner

A namespace can optionally have an owner that corresponds to an HCP or Active Directory® (AD) user. Assuming that the user has the allow namespace management property, the owner of a namespace can use the HS3 and HCP management APIs to:

View and change the versioning status of the namespace

Delete the namespace

See the namespace in a namespace listing

You can also use the Tenant Management Console and HCP management API to perform these activities if you have the administrator role, even if you’re not the namespace owner.

You can specify the owner of a namespace when you create the namespace or at any time thereafter. You can also change namespace owners at any time.

When the HS3 API is used to create a namespace, the namespace creator automatically becomes the namespace owner.

When a user with an HCP user account becomes the owner of a namespace, that user account automatically gets the browse, read, write, read ACL, and write ACL data access permissions for that namespace. If HS3 was used to create the namespace, the owner user account also automatically gets the delete permission for the namespace.

You can limit the number of namespaces that can be owned by a single user. You can change this limit at any time.

For information on:

The allow namespace management property, see About user and group accounts

Using the HS3 API, see Using the HCP HS3 API

Using the HCP management API, see HCP Management API Reference

The Tenant Management Console, see Tenant Management Console

Changing namespace owners, see Changing the namespace owner

Changing the limit on namespace ownership, see Setting the maximum number of namespaces per user

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