Up and Running with Joomla, 2nd Edition

Managing Users

All of the user management features within Joomla can be accessed either by clicking the User Manager icon on the main Control Panel page, as shown in Figure 16, or from accessing the User Manager submenu under the Site menu—both within the Joomla Administrator backend.

Figure 16. Accessing the User Manager

Adding Users

Once you have access the User Manager you are ready to add, edit, or delete users. For all practical purposes, there are three ways to go about this:

• Manual: add them manually by clicking the New button and filling out the information on the resulting form, as shown in Figure 17.

• User Registrations: assuming you have enabled user registration when configuring Joomla, you can have users click the Create an Account link on the Login module and fill in their information. Once complete you, the Administrator, will get an email and then you can go in and assign them the correct access permissions.

• Import: if you have a lot of users, do not want users to register, and you are familiar with working with SQL, then you can import them directly into the database. While we can't give you specific instructions in this book on how to do that, you will want to take a look at the *_users, *_core_acl_aro, and *_core_acl_groups_aro_map tables where you replace * with the table prefix you selected during your Joomla setup (default is jos).

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