Roles allow you to fine tune the access that users have to your site. There are many other uses of roles such as having a certain role automatically subscribed to a newsletter. Roles are a way to categorize your users and define what each group has access to. Examples of roles include: anonymous user, authenticated user, moderator, author, administrator and so on. They can really be anything you want!

By default, Drupal comes with two user roles:

  • Anonymous user: this role is used for users that don't have a user account or that are not authenticated.
  • Authenticated user: this role is automatically granted to all logged in users.

Yooweb will normally add an additional "Administrator" role for you, the site administrator.