Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 3 ■ Creating and Managing Users
• You may optionally upload a user picture (avatar), enable the personal contact form
for this person by checking the “Personal contact form” check box, and set the time
zone to the value where the person resides. For demonstration purposes, we’ll leave
those fields at their default values.
• Click the “Create new account” button to save the account.
• Click the People link in the administrators menu to see the complete list of user
accounts on your site (see Figure 3-7), including the account that you just created.
Figure 3-7. All the user accounts of your site
John Smith can now log in to your site and perform all the tasks associated with the company user role.
There may be instances where you need to update a user account. For example, you may need to reset
a user’s password, change his or her e-mail address, update his or her assigned roles, or disable the account.
You can perform all of these actions by clicking the Edit link associated with the user’s account on the People
page.
User-Generated Accounts
If you configured your site so that visitors can create their own accounts, requiring that a site administrator
review and approve their account, the process is slightly different than that of an administrator creating the
users’ accounts. If you selected the user account option where a visitor can create their account but requires
administrator approval, or the option where visitors can create their account without an administrator
approving their account, the login form on the homepage has an additional option under the “Log in”
button: “Create new account.” See Figure 3-8.
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