This document discusses managing users and roles in Drupal 7. It covers defining roles and permissions for different types of users, including anonymous and authenticated users. The document recommends setting user account registration to "Administrators only" for control. It also provides instructions for creating new roles and user accounts, and assigning permissions and roles to users. The goal is to control who has access to perform certain actions like creating, editing, and deleting content.

1. Introduction to Drupal 7
Session 7.2
Users and roles management
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2. Agenda
• Users
• Roles
• Permissions
• Creating users
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3. CRUD
• You can control who has the ability to do what
You define who has the ability to
– Read (View)
– Create
– Update
– Delete
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4. Roles
• Categories for authenticated users
• No limitations on the number of roles you set
• No limitations on the naming you give
• Any authenticated user of your website may
be assigned to none, one, or more than one
role
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5. 2 main types of roles
• Anonymous users
– Do not enter credentials to enter the website
• Authenticated users
– Enter user ID and password to access more
functionalities or content
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6. Permissions
• Permissions in Drupal are a mechanism for
controlling what a user assigned to a specific
role can do.
• There are dozens of permissions – be careful!
• Examples:
– Create a page
– Edit/edit own page, etc
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7. User accounts
• All Drupal websites have at least one user
account: the system administrator 
• 3 ways to work out new accounts:
– Users create their new accounts with no
administrator moderation
– Users create their new accounts, but
administrator approval is needed
– Only administrator can create new accounts
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8. Which is the best option for us?
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9. Account settings
• Make sure you review Account settings page
on every new Drupal website you make
• URL: ../admin/config/people/accounts
• For our case, let’s change the “Who can
register accounts?” option to “Administrators
only”
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10. Creating a new role
> Administration
> People
> Permissions
> Roles
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11. Set permissions on the role
• Comment: check all
• Contextual links: Use contextual links
• Filter: User the Filtered HTML text format + Use the
Full HTML text format
• Menus: Administer menus and menu items
• Node: Administer content + Access the content
overview page + View published content + View own
unpublished content + View content revisions + Article:
Create new content + Article: Edit own content +
Article Delete own content + same for Basic page
• Search: use search
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12. Creating User Accounts
• Administration > People or
• ../admin/people
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13. Time for questions
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14. Contacts
Kalin Chernev
– E: kalata@shtrak.eu
– T: twitter.com/kalinchernev
– U: http://shtrak.eu/kalata
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