# User permissions: allow flow.read for a specific flow ID

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-permissions-allow-flow-read-for-a-specific-flow-id/39594>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [23 January 2021 06:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-permissions-allow-flow-read-for-a-specific-flow-id/39594 "2021-01-23T06:19:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![supadupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@supadupa](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/supadupa)\
**Post date:** [23 January 2021 06:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-permissions-allow-flow-read-for-a-specific-flow-id/39594/1 "2021-01-23T06:19:50Z")

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I'd like to allow read (or write) access to specific user to a particular flow. I've understood from the docs I can assign general flow.read, but cannot get it working for just one specific flow (/flow/:id)

Is this even possible?

Thx

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [23 January 2021 08:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-permissions-allow-flow-read-for-a-specific-flow-id/39594/2 "2021-01-23T08:51:34Z")

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Hi, no, the permission system is not that fine grained.

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**Author:** ![supadupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@supadupa](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/supadupa)\
**Post date:** [23 January 2021 10:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-permissions-allow-flow-read-for-a-specific-flow-id/39594/3 "2021-01-23T10:05:10Z")

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Thx for the clarification

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [6 February 2021 10:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/user-permissions-allow-flow-read-for-a-specific-flow-id/39594/4 "2021-02-06T10:05:10Z")

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