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About
The User module allows users to register, log in, and log out. It also allows users with proper permissions to manage user roles and permissions. For more information, see the online documentation for the User module.
Uses
- Creating and managing users
- Through the People administration page you can add and cancel user accounts and assign users to roles. By editing one particular user you can change their username, email address, password, and information in other fields.
- Configuring user roles
- Roles are used to group and classify users; each user can be assigned one or more roles. Typically there are two pre-defined roles: Anonymous user (users that are not logged in), and Authenticated user (users that are registered and logged in). Depending on how your site was set up, an Administrator role may also be available: users with this role will automatically be assigned any new permissions whenever a module is enabled. You can create additional roles on the Roles administration page.
- Setting permissions
- After creating roles, you can set permissions for each role on the Permissions page. Granting a permission allows users who have been assigned a particular role to perform an action on the site, such as viewing content, editing or creating a particular type of content, administering settings for a particular module, or using a particular function of the site (such as search).
- Other permissions pages
- The main Permissions page can be overwhelming, so each module that defines permissions has its own page for setting them. There are links to these pages on the Extend page. When editing a content type, vocabulary, etc., there is also a Manage permissions tab for permissions related to that configuration.
- Managing account settings
- The Account settings page allows you to manage settings for the displayed name of the Anonymous user role, personal contact forms, user registration settings, and account cancellation settings. On this page you can also manage settings for account personalization, and adapt the text for the email messages that users receive when they register or request a password recovery. You may also set which role is automatically assigned new permissions whenever a module is enabled (the Administrator role).
- Managing user account fields
- Because User accounts are an entity type, you can extend them by adding fields through the Manage fields tab on the Account settings page. By adding fields for e.g., a picture, a biography, or address, you can a create a custom profile for the users of the website. For background information on entities and fields, see the Field module help page.