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title: "Roles and permissions"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover Drupal Starter Kits' user roles and permissions system. Learn how to manage access levels, from content authors to site administrators, ensuring secure and efficient website management."
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Rebranding notice!

Acquia announces rebranding of its “Acquia CMS” offering, which includes a collection of Drupal modules. “Acquia CMS” is now referred to as “Drupal Starter Kits”.

Drupal Starter Kits offers a number of roles that provide different levels of permission to users. For details, navigate to **Manage > People > Permissions**.

Important

When creating a new user, ensure that you apply multiple roles and provide the necessary permissions. For example, to create a user who can create and publish content, you must apply the **Content Author** and **Content Editor** roles to the user.

**Role**

**Description**

Administrator

Has all permissions and access to all aspects of the site.

Low Code Site Builder

Can create and edit Site Studio components.

Site Builder

Uses Drupal site building tools, such as, to construct the site. No content privileges.

Content Administrator

Has access to all content creation and management permissions.

Content Author

Has access to create and manage their own content

Content Editor

Has access to review and publish all content.

User Administrator

Has access to administer and manage other users.

Anonymous User

Can view published content.

Authenticated User

Has access to create and manage their own content.

Frontend site with preview

Has permissions entitled to a headless site to view and preview content.

Headless Administrator

A frontend developer who interacts with Drupal Starter Kits to build data models and configure connectivity with front end applications.

For more information, see [Drupal’s roles and permissions](https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/user-accounts/user-roles-and-permissions).

![Roles and permissions](https://acquia.widen.net/content/pbnri4lmkg/jpeg/cms_roles-and-permissions.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=r1vkzh)