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# About user accounts and roles

User accounts let you control who can access the Web site. In most cases, you'll want to assign a username and password to each person who works with your Web site.

User roles are assigned to accounts, and determine the types of access that users are allowed when using the Web site. For example, if you have a group of users who will view site content and make changes, you can assign them to the Author role. This role is created by default. As a site administrator, you can modify the access rights for the default roles or create new roles.

You can assign a user to more than one role. However, if you're using the default user roles, you need only select one role for the user account. Each default role has all of the rights of those lower on the list plus additional rights. For example, an author has browser rights in addition to the right to author pages.

| Default user roles

| Access rights list

| About anonymous user access

| About user accounts and roles for subwebs