This is a strength and commonly-used feature of Drupal. First, you need to create a "Role" for your sub-editor (found under Admin > People). Once that role is created, you can give that role the permissions you want via Admin > People > Permissions. To take a simple example using the "Article" content type, create the role and then go to permissions and give that role the ability to perform some tasks but not others on Articles. The same process works on content types that you create.
-WK
On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use Drupal as a newbie and want to create a user type called content provider. Basically I want folks to be sub-editors on the site, so they can add content and edit it, but without being administrators. Is there something I'm missing in thinking that this needs an add-on? Can I do this straight out of the box?
References welcome.
Dave