What is a role?
A role in Drupal helps to define what a user can do. By default, a role lacks permissions and is just a named grouping that helps to identify a specific set of functionality or privileges that may be assigned.
For example, in a typical editorial workflow, you may have users who can contribute content, editors who review the content, and a publisher who schedules the content to be published at a specific time. Each of these users will have a corresponding role of a contributor, editor, and publisher and a defined set of permissions that will be assigned to each role.
We can navigate to the Roles panel by directly entering /admin/people/roles or using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Manage | People and then the Roles tab. ...
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