# What does the ‘viewer’ role do?

- Link: https://www.agilicus.com/faq/what-does-the-viewer-role-do/
- Published: 2026-06-12T12:59:44+00:00
- Author: Don Bowman

Agilicus AnyX has a rich role-based web application firewall. Some protocols this
can mean very fine control (e.g. Web). Others like VNC Desktops its more coarse:
read-only versus read-write. Others like RDP are all or nothing.

THe built-in roles are:

 * Owner: do anything
 * Editor: read/modify existing things
 * Viewer: read existing things
 * Self: do anything on your own data.

When looking at a protocol like Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP), we recommend only
using Owner.