User Settings
Before you do any user management you will need to set up the user settings as desired for your site. It's possible that this was set up for you by your project manager already and you may not want to make any changes here but it's important to know what options you have just in case you do want to change the settings. Head to:
Administration menu » User management » User settings
User registration settings
Public Registrations allows you to change the way your site respondes to people who want to create an account or "register" on your site. What you select here will determine if only you as an admin can create accounts, people can freely create accounts with little to no approval required, or if an administrator must approve their request to have an account on your site. You can also check the box to require that they verify their email address, this will send them an email with a verification link that when clicked will tell you that their email address is indeed valid.
You can also enter in guidelines here to display to those wishing to create an account on your site.
User e-mail settings
This is where you edit all the automatic emails that are sent out when a new user account is created or when something has changed with that account. I wont go through the details here as the headings will hopefully make sense but one thing to notice is that you can use the variables listed at the beginning of this section to input dynamic text into your emails. What I mean by dynamic text is for example, if you use the variable "!username" it will insert the username of the account that is being effected.
Other user settings
You can also enable/disable user signatures and user pictures. If enabled user signatures will automatically be added to any comment that a user makes on a node or forum post. If enabled user pictures will be displayed on blog posts, forum posts, or on any other nodes that have this feature available.
