roolipohjaisen

Roolipohjaisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective roolipohjainen, which means based on roles or role-based. The term is used in technical, organizational, and design contexts to describe systems, structures, or processes that are organized around defined roles rather than individuals or objects. In Finnish, roolipohjaisen modifies a following noun in the genitive, for example roolipohjaisen järjestelmän or roolipohjaisen arkkitehtuurin.

The concept is closely related to the English phrase role-based. It appears in discussions of information security, software design, and governance to indicate that permissions, responsibilities, or rules are assigned according to a person’s or a role’s function rather than by identity alone. A common example is roolipohjainen käyttöoikeuksienhallinta, Finnish for role-based access control. The adjective can also describe game design, team structures, or workflows that depend on defined roles such as administrator, editor, tai käyttäjäcomponents.

Etymology-wise, roolipohjainen is a compound of rooli meaning role and pohjainen from pohja, meaning base or foundation, with the typical -inen suffix forming an adjective. The inflected form roolipohjaisen is used when the noun it describes is in genitive or other cases requiring that ending. The term is primarily used in Finnish technical and organizational writing, and its meaning is generally clear from context as “based on roles.”

See also roolipeli, roolipohjainen pääsynhallinta, RBAC.