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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Assigning Rights to the Authenticated User Role


Within your Drupal site, you can use roles to assign specific permissions to groups of users. As described in the brief glossary in Chapter 1, Drupal comes with two default roles: the anonymous user and the authenticated user. Anonymous users are all people visiting the site who are not site members; all site members (that is, all people with a username and password) belong to the authenticated user role.

Note

Creating additional roles is covered in Chapter 3: Getting Started; assigning granular rights to users via roles is discussed in more detail in Chapter 5:Enrolling Students.

To assign rights to specific roles, navigate to Administer | User management | Roles, or admin/user/roles.

As shown in the above screenshot, click the edit permissions link for authenticated users.

Assign authenticated users the following rights:

  • Comment module: Authenticated users can see comments, and post comments. These rights have the comments going into a moderation...