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Defining new user policies

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Defining new user policies

When you open up your site to the public, you invite enormous collaboration but also enormous trouble. The same things that let people contribute content also make it easy for them to cause problems. We talked a little bit about that in the videos on setting comment policy and managing comments. Now we'll go into what happens when someone goes from being an anonymous visitor to a site member and how you can control it. To start with, I want to explain that Drupal comes with four levels of permission built-in. You can see that by clicking People and then the Permissions tab. Here we see three different levels. There is the Anonymous User. That's anybody who visits your site and isn't logged in. Authenticated User. That's somebody who has already signed in and that means they first have to get an account. The third level is the Administrator role, which I'll come back to in just a minute. There is a fourth level here which isn't showing called the super user. That's the first user that…

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