Mastering Drupal 8

Using Drush to manage users

Another great way to speed up our development in Drupal is to use Drush to manage users.

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 User commands:

We will take a deeper look at utilizing Drush to quickly perform the following tasks:

• Displaying user information
• Adding and removing roles from a user
• Blocking and unblocking a user
• Creating and deleting user accounts
• Creating a one-time login