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Normally, you
create user accounts in order to grant access to administrative parts of
your site or allow your visitors to post their content.
In order to create a new user you will have to go through the following steps:
- Log in to the administration panel of your Joomla! web site
Open a new browser window and enter the corresponding URL. This would be something like http://www.your_site_name_here.com/administrator
Once the page is loaded, log yourself in as the site administrator.
Please note that other accounts might not have the rights to add new
users, depending on the granted access level.
- Open the User Manager
After logging in, go to the Site menu item, situated in the
upper-left corner, right under the green bar separating the site header
from the content area. In the opening menu select User Manager.
- Add the new user
On the newly opened page, press the New button in the upper-right corner. This will open the new user panel where you can enter the user data. Now, let's fill in the user details:
Name - this field will contain the user's real name, like John Smith
Username - this would be the user or login name to be used to log in to the site, like jsmith or yellowbird67
New password - here you can enter a temporary password that
you will send to the user so it can log in for the first time. The user
will be able to change this later to something that is easy to
remember. A good rule of thumb for choosing a safe password is to use
small letters together with capitals and numbers while having a minimal
length of six characters. A good example would be p9HWc0Ak.
Verify password - here you have to reenter the previously choosen password just to make sure there was no typo in the first one
Group - choosing the correct group to assign your user to may
be crucial for your site's security so pay attention when setting this
up! There is no golden-rule for choosing the user group except maybe
for this one: "Keep the rights as low as posible". Normally, you
wouldn't want to assign the
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