Help with managing user permissions

[11qu1d]

Hi,

I hope this is the right place for this. I am just starting setting up my first Matrix server for personal use (no federation) and i seem to get stuck with various permissions issues and need some help. I thought to use MAS first as i need OIDC authentication, from my understanding the native OIDC support in Synapse will be deprecated in the future.

With my initial setup i managed to login using OIDC via MAS and Element UI, which worked fine although that's when the permissions issues started. Main issue was that i didn't know how to make my initial user an admin, this was blocking me from finding other users and inviting them into spaces. I managed to resolve this by following the instructions in this issue #2913.

After this i tried to login using the Element desktop client, where i realised that my user lost all permissions. Then i understood i had to follow the same process again to get it working for a different token this time. Having to modify the database to perform such tasks seems quite unwieldy.

Is there an easy was to assign permanent permissions to users irrespective of what device they are using or pick and choose without having to manually modify the database? I haven't spend too much time on this, but i suspect my other users also cannot perform simple actions like invite users to rooms/spaces.

I know that much of this is probably due to my lack of knowledge and also the fact the MAS is fairly new, but any help/suggestion around managing user permissions is appreciated.

Thanks!