If we open a terminal window and navigate to our Drupal project, we can enter the following command to retrieve a list of commands:
drush
If we scan down the list, we can locate all the Role commands:
In fact, we can utilize Drush to quickly perform the following tasks:
- Listing roles
- Creating roles
- Deleting roles
- Adding permissions to roles
- Removing permissions from roles
Using Drush to retrieve a list of roles is simple using the drush role-list command. Within a terminal window, we can retrieve all the current roles that exist by entering the following command:
drush role-list
From the preceding list, we can see that we have roles for Anonymous user, Authenticated user, Developer, and Administrator.