Roles for Suborganizations

[ty.frith]

Hi there @mathias.mahlknecht welcome to the community!

@mathias.mahlknecht

As I can see, it Auth0 currently does not support suborganizations.

That’s correct, Auth0 does not currently support sub-organizations. Typically, what I have seen implemented is a tenant per customer + Organizations or simply an Organization per what would be “nested” Organization where each of these has their own database assigned.

The following thread has some good information regarding a user switching Organizations:

User switch between Organization

Answering some questions that I posed after some digging around for an implentation. Using the React-sdk, we can use the getAccessTokenSilently from the auth0 hook and pass in organization (similar to the same prop on the Auth0Provider) with the new org_id when a user wants to switch organization. To do this, we have to pass in the ignoreCache flag when we get the access token (otherwise you’d get the same access token for the same organization. Drawback is obvious, if a user switches back an…

Here is an FAQ regarding adding roles to tokens:

https://community.auth0.com/t/how-to-add-roles-and-permissions-to-the-id-token-using-actions/84506

Regarding:

@mathias.mahlknecht

to add a role to the token only, but not to the user

Are you able to elaborate on what you mean here? No roles will exist at /api/v2/users/{id} but rather /api/v2/users/{id}/roles for top level roles and /api/v2/organizations/{id}/members/{user_id}/roles for Organization specific roles.

I did also find an existing Feedback request for sub-organizations:

Hirearchial Organizations

Feature: I would like to have hierarchical organizations structure Description: I would like the ability to create a hirearchial brand structure similar to what is described here (How do I handle "organizations" in a hirearchy) Use-case: It would allow finer grain control over access.

Hope this helps!