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Todd Tomlinson, Beginning Backdrop CMS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1970-6_3

3. Creating and Managing Users

Todd Tomlinson

(1)Tigard, Oregon, USA

Now that your site is up and running, you have a couple of decisions to make. First, will your site have any administrators other than yourself? Second, will your site be open to everyone, or will users need to log in to view content and other features? This chapter discusses how Backdrop treats visitors to your site, and how you as a site administrator can configure Backdrop’s user account features to restrict the capabilities of those who have user accounts on your system.

Users, Roles, and Permissions

You can control who has the ability to do what on your web site by using Backdrop’s security ...

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