Depending on how you configure the Site Factory websites that you administer, you can allow all of your users sign-in access to all of your Drupal 7 websites, or you can require that each website has its own list of authorized users. Site Factory supports two methods for tracking and authenticating users who access the Site Factory Management Console and Site Factory-hosted Drupal 7 websites:
To change the mode that Site Factory uses for your websites, contact Acquia Support.
For Hybrid mode to work properly, account registration settings must be properly configured by following these steps:
You should not implement hybrid mode without carefully considering the implications that making the change will have on your website’s users.
If you change the login mode to Hybrid and then change back to OpenID, any local accounts created on your websites will no longer work, even if you change back to the Hybrid mode.
In Hybrid mode, OpenID users only have access to the website, and do not have administrative access. You must manually add administrative permissions and roles to OpenID accounts that require administrative access.
In Hybrid mode, OpenID users must use the management interface when signing in to websites for the first time for the website to create a local account based on the OpenID account. After creating the local account, OpenID accounts can then either sign in directly to the website or use the management interface.
Note
If you create a local account for a user before the same user signs in with their OpenID account, the website merges the user’s local account with the OpenID account.