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Controlling access permissions

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Controlling access permissions

Managing user permissions in Drupal is a two-step process. In the last video, we went through the first step by giving the users roles. Now we'll perform the second step, which is granting permissions to the role we created. First let's just review what we have. We go up to People and we see everybody who is an authenticated user on this site. In the last video we gave Polly Ann Saturated this role, content manager. I am going to go over to my other browser and log in as her. Username is Polly Ann Saturated and the password, as for all users in this course, is drupal, all lowercase, and log in. We can see right away that there are different permissions between Polly and the administrator by just looking at the front page. So let's go there as the administrator. First, we have this feed over here, which we added several videos ago. We don't see that as Polly. That suggests that actually she doesn't have permission to see it. There is no toolbar up here as there is for the administrator…

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