# Inheriting users properties

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inheriting-users-properties/11347>\
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**Created:** [March 11, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inheriting-users-properties/11347 "2016-03-11T13:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![pgmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@pgmo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pgmo)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/inheriting-users-properties/11347/1 "2016-03-11T13:27:43Z")

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Hi,  
I would like to structure my security as follows:

- a number of basic roles (about 30) are defined by me in the gateway at design time;
- about 10 basic users are defined by me in the gateway at design time: each of them has its own mix of basic roles;
- the site manager will be able at runtime to define new users only by inheriting from one of the 10 basic users.

Is that possible? I’m investigating if there’s a script command to create a new user based on an existing user, sort of system.user.createNew(“name”,“password”,“basedOn”): is there anything like that or a possible workaround?

Thanks in advance