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Modify user account information

About user accounts and roles

User accounts let you control who can access the Web site. You can create accounts that allow access to the Web site only, or you can use existing network server or domain accounts. 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

The following roles are available for Microsoft FrontPage-extended Webs by default. Each role gives the user rights to perform specific actions on a Web site or virtual server.

  • Browser   View the pages in the Web site. 
  • Contributor   View the pages in the Web site.
  • Author   Add pages to the Web site. This role contains all Browser rights as well. 
  • Advanced Author   Edit a Web site in Microsoft FrontPage. This role contains all Author rights plus the following rights: Border Web, Theme Web, Link Style Sheets, and Recalc Web.
  • Administrator   Manage a Web site or virtual server. This role contains all rights.
Access rights list

The following rights are available. Each right gives the user permission to perform a specific action on a Web site or virtual server.

Web design rights

  • Author Pages   Create, edit, or delete HTML pages and directories.
  • Browse   Browse pages in this Web site, including those with Web bots.
  • Register Components  Upload new components (runtime code) and have them run by the server.
  • Set Source Control   Set the source control options.
  • Theme Web   Apply a theme to a Web site.
  • Border Web   Apply a border to a Web site.
  • Link Style Sheets   Apply a style sheet to an entire Web site.

Web administration rights

  • Configure Access   Create, delete, and modify roles, including adding users to the roles and specifying which rights are assigned to a role.
  • Set Permissions  Specify permissions for individual files.
  • Create Accounts   Create local machine accounts.
  • Manage Server Health   Run the server health features for a virtual server.
  • Manage Usage Analysis   Modify the usage analysis settings for a virtual server.
  • Manage Subweb   Create, rename, or remove subwebs.
  • Recalc Web   Recalculate a Web site.
About anonymous user access

If you're creating a public Web site, you can allow permissions for anonymous users who don't have accounts and you can specify the user role that anonymous users will have.

About user accounts and roles for subwebs

If you have created subwebs on your Web site, you can allow the subwebs to have unique accounts and user roles or you can specify that they use those of their parent Web site.

About user account limits

Your server administrator can specify a limit to the number of accounts that you can create for a virtual server. Once you reach this limit, you must either delete unnecessary accounts or have the server administrator raise the limit. This limit includes only accounts created through SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft. The limit does not include accounts from a network group or domain.

  1. From the home page for your Web site, on the top link bar, click Site Settings.
  2. On the Site Settings page, under User Information, click View user information.
  3. Click the user account you want to modify.
  4. Click Edit user information.
  5. Specify the new user information for this account.
    • In the Full Name field, type the user's first and last name.
    • In the E-mail Address field, type the user's e-mail address.
    • In the Notes field, type any comments about this user account.
  6. Click Save and Close.

Note   The User Information page displays the account names of only those users who have used the site. To modify the account of a user who has not accessed the site, delete the account and then recreate it with the updated information.

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