Hour 8. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to Use the Security Structure

• Creating and Managing Users, Permissions, and Roles

• Exporting User Profile Data in CSV Format

Introduction

In 2000, Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder set up a wireless bridge to share Hans’s ADSL Internet connection. After graduation, they and their friends put their simple new site onto the web where, according to Drupal’s own history (drupal.org/node/769), members began talking about new web technologies, such as moderation, syndication, ratings, and distributed authentication. Dries envisioned this as a small village, and attempted to register dorp.org as a domain name (dorp is Dutch for village). A ...

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