How to create another admin in Drupal

1. Login is as the administrator and go to the administrator panel.

2. You need to create a new user by Administer -> User Management -> Users and click Add user

Drupal Add user

3. Create new user as shown...

drupal create new user

4. The user currently has limited priviledges. Since we want this user to have admin privileges, we have to create an administrator role and assign this user to that role.

5. Go Administer -> User Management -> Roles and create an administrator role as shown...

6. Edit the permissions of the administrator role...

Drupal edit permissions

7. Give this role full access by checkmarking everything.

Drupal all permissions

8. Edit the newly created user ...

Drupal edit user

9. Assign this newly created user the administrator role...

10. Now when user admin2 logs in, he/she will have all the menus and controls that an administrator will have.

11. Another way get to the access controls of the various roles is to go to Administer -> User Management -> Access Control. Here you can set the prvileges of authenticated and non-authenticated users.

 

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