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title: "Configuring Snowflake application"
slug: "configuring-on-snowflake-application"
updated: 2026-04-15T08:54:18Z
published: 2026-04-29T10:51:57Z
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# Configuring Snowflake application

## Custom Role

Britive needs a custom role to connect to Snowflake and collect/grant roles to users.

Follow the steps to create a custom role:

1. Login to Snowflake Console with *ACCOUNTADMIN* or SECURITYADMIN privilege.
2. Run the following queries to create a custom role and assign the required privileges.  For more information, see [*Creating a Custom Role*](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-access-control-configure.html#create-a-custom-role).
  1. *create role BRITIVEROLE*
  2. *grant manage grants on account to role BRITIVEROLE*
3. For managing Snowflake accounts using organization, assign ORGADMIN to the custom role using the query: *grant role ORGADMIN to role BRITIVEROLE.*

Note:Make sure to run this query from an account that has the ORGADMIN role enabled.

## User Account

<meta charset="utf-8">Britive requires a user account with the custom role created above to connect to Snowflake REST endpoints and execute queries.

Follow the steps to create a user account:

1. Create a new user in Snowflake. For more information, see [*Creating Users*](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-user-management.html#creating-users).
2. Generate a public-private key pair and assign it to the user. Optionally, you can create a password-protected private key. For more details, see [*Configuring Key Pair Authentication*](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/key-pair-auth.html#configuring-key-pair-authentication).
3. Assign the custom role created above to the user using the query: *grant role <custom role> to user <BRITIVEUSER>.*