Admin Area in Drupal site

Question

I have a problem with Drupal: I build sites that have a protected area accessible only to site admins. I want to create a pseudo-admin role that has access to the protected area but I don't want them to access full admin/Drupal functionalities.

Which is the best thing to do in this case? Can I create a sub-admin area with styled access only to some areas (like creating content and others) without reinventing the wheel?

Answer 1

Yes.

Create a role, set the role permissions ( /admin/user/permissions ) to just what you need them to access.

If you need a styled theme for these users, check out sections module, you can do role and url specific themes.

Answer 2

If you want to grant permissions beyond content management, you may consider Site Configuration Permissions.

The following permissions are added:

• administer administration theme
• administer clean-urls
• administer date-time
• administer error reporting
• administer file system
• administer modules
• administer performance
• administer site information
• administer site maintenance
• administer themes
• display site building menu
• display site configuration menu

Answer 3

Like troynt said, the sections module is usually good for this type of thing. It depends on your requirements, but when I once needed to set up a user section that was separate from the site and only shared certain data, so I set up a multisite with some shared tables

Answer 4

If you are using Drupal 6 go under User Management / Roles and create a new Role (say subadmin) and grant him the rights for Dupal 7 go under People / Permissions / Roles tab click where you add new Role and grant permissions.

Refer this Link :

http://planetghost.com/make_new_role