[support] Administer access control permission

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Sep 19 16:30:00 UTC 2008


Quoting Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Drupal role called "admin" which can do most admin typical
> admin tasks on the server (block users, administer various settings,
> etc). I need to allow these users to change the role of other users.
> There are too many users and I don't want to administer the roles all by
> myself.
>
> I found one way to do this: I gave the "admin" role the "administer
> access control" permission in the user module. BUT this permissions also
> lets this role access several pages which I would prefer them not to access:
>
> * Access control: admin/user/access
> * Access rules: admin/user/rules
> * Roles:  admin/user/roles
> * Taxonomy access: admin/user/taxonomy_access
>
>
> Is there a way to give some users the power to change another user's
> role without giving them access to all those other pages?
>

Looks like http://drupal.org/project/administerusersbyrole fits your need.

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