Creating a hierarchy of users with the Drupal Subuser module

Creating a hierarchy of users with the Drupal Subuser module

In this episode we cover the Drupal Subuser module. This module makes it easy to allow your users to manage other users on your site. This works great if you want to allow a site manager to be able to add in users of a specific role, but not have access to the full Drupal User Administration pages.

In the video we go through the following example. Imagine you have a “manager” role that needs to be able to create users with the “reviewer” role. This might be a use case for larger blogs with content managers, content reviewers, content editors, etc. This way a manager can safely manage the “reviewers” of the site, without having to worry about accidentally giving them the “administrator” role.

Using the Drupal 7 Subuser module you are able to define permissions to pick which roles a user can create, and to also decide if the user can edit and delete their subusers. The module also provides a simple interface for viewing and managing a users subusers.

Overall a pretty handy module that I think a lot of larger sites might have a use for. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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[sumanchitrakar]

when will it be upgraded to drupal 8? ;)