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title: "User management with roles and permissions"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Streamline user management in Drupal Starter Kits with predefined roles and permissions. Learn how to effectively assign and customize access levels for content authors, editors, and administrators."
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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 includes a number of roles that provide users with different levels of permissions. For information about permissions that make up each role, click **Manage** > **People** > **Permissions** in the Drupal Starter Kits user interface.

Important

Roles are intentionally designed so that you can apply multiple roles to new users to provide them with the permissions they require. For example, you create the _Content Author_ and _Content Editor_ roles for a new user who requires permissions to both create and publish content.

**Role Name**

**Description**

Administrator

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

Developer

Has access to develop Site Studio configuration, including templates, components, and styles.

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

Has access to view published content.

Authenticated User

Has access to view published content and is known to the site.

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