Roles and permissions | Acquia Source | Acquia Product Documentation

Roles and permissions form the foundation of the access control system of Acquia Source powered by Drupal by enabling you to define who can do what on your site.

In Acquia Source:

Users are individual accounts with unique login credentials.
Roles are collections of permissions that define what actions users can perform.
Permissions are specific abilities to specific actions such as creating content and administering users.

This role-based access control system provides flexible and granular control over user capabilities.

Default roles¶

Acquia Source comes with the following predefined or default roles:

Role	Description
Admin	Full site access and control across all assigned sites.
Member	Basic access requiring additional site-specific roles.

Default roles provide a starting point. Default roles are granted within the Sites Dashboard. You can customize the permissions granted for the member role to meet the needs of your organization.

Custom roles¶

Custom roles and their related permissions can be created at the site level to meet your specific workflow needs.

The following table lists some example custom roles and permissions for a common editorial process:

Custom role	Permissions
Content author	Create content, edit (bot not publish) own content.
Content editor	Create content, edit (but not publish) own and others content.
Content publisher	Create, edit, publish, archive, and delete content.

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