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Expand Up @@ -1254,6 +1254,16 @@ In the above configuration, users with ``ROLE_ADMIN`` role will also have the
``ROLE_USER`` role. The ``ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN`` role has ``ROLE_ADMIN``, ``ROLE_ALLOWED_TO_SWITCH``
and ``ROLE_USER`` (inherited from ``ROLE_ADMIN``).

.. note::

The role hierarchy defined in the ``role_hierarchy`` option is static and
you cannot override it dynamically (for example to store the role hierarchy
in a database). If you need that, create a custom
:doc:`security voter </security/voters>` that looks for the user roles in
the database. Another solution is to create a service that implements the
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maybe One solution is ... instead of Another ...? because technically creating your own RoleHierarchyVoter is exactly what the previous sentence suggests? 😊

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Actually I think its fine as it is 😊

``RoleHierarchyInterface`` and inject it into your own ``RoleHierarchyVoter``
service.

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