User Accounts

A user account is a person: their user name, email address and password. The user account logs in, writes comments and sends messages. The content they add goes on a profile (see Profiles). Key Concepts explains how the two fit together.

Members change their own account in Account Settings (in their user menu): photo, user name, email address, password and a few preferences.

As master admin you can open any member's account: open their profile's settings page and click the Account tab. Below the member's own settings you get an Admin Options section:

• Block User: the account stays, but the user can't log in.
• User Group: how much the user can do on the site.

Make a user a Profile Admin if they help you moderate the site. They can approve pending items and change profiles, but they can't change site settings.

A power user is a standard user who can create more than one profile, for example a manager with a profile for each artist. Unlike a Profile Admin, a power user can only change their own profiles.

Power users are set per quota, in ACP > Modules > Users > Users > Quota Config:

• Power User Enabled: users whose profile is in this quota are power users.
• Max Profiles: how many profiles each one can create.
• Allowed Quotas: the quotas their new profiles can be in.

Power users then get a create new profile button on their profile.

A user account can also be linked to profiles it didn't create. See Link a User Account to Multiple Profiles.