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How to add a new user to Drupal?
Click Administration > User management > Roles. Type in the name of your new role (e.g. ‘editor’) and click ‘Add role’. To add a new ‘editor’ user, go to Administration > User management > Users and click the ‘Add User’ tab.
How do I create a role in Drupal?
To create or edit a role, click Administration > User management > Roles. To create or edit a user, click Administration > User management > Users. To specify the permissions for a role, click Administration > User management > Permissions.
How to set permissions for an editor in Drupal?
To specify the permissions for a role, click Administration > User management > Permissions. To add editors to your site, you will first need to create an editor role. Click Administration > User management > Roles.
What are the different types of Drupal users?
Drupal allows you to setup any number of different kinds of users or ‘Roles’. Many websites have editor and site administrator roles; editors to make content updates and site admins to install new modules and make larger configuration changes.
How can I control who can access my Drupal site?
One of the great features of Drupal is the ability to control how and what people can access on your site. You can set permissions for these “users” to define who can do what for Drupal core features and contributed modules. For example, you probably won’t want casual visitors to edit your homepage.
What are the permissions and roles for Drupal?
User/2 and all other users: User/2 and all other registered users on your Drupal site should each be associated with an individual person. Registered users can be assigned to roles, which are given fine-grained permissions to allow different users different access to administer the site and add content.
How to manage user accounts in Drupal core?
Managing users Drupal core allows you the ability to assign a user one or more roles, and to have different permissions then assigned to each role. By default a Drupal user will include values like username, status, timezone, etc, however you can also with the help of Drupal’s Field API add your own custom fields to your user accounts.