Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide

Creating a user account

We're going to learn how to create a user account. Some sites choose to allow users to create an account that immediately becomes active with no review, some choose to require the account to stay inactive until an administrative user approves it, which is what we will emulate here, and some create all user accounts administratively and do not allow users to register.

Let's create an account for an editor, one of the roles we created. If you still have a page up with the tabs for List, Permissions, and Roles at the top, click List. Otherwise, you can either click People in the Admin menu, or navigate to admin/people. Here is how we create an account:

1. Click the + Add user button, which will bring you to the Add user ...