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For most of our sites please request new users through the Helpdesk. There are a few sites which manage their own users and some ITS staff who may do this task infrequently enough for this to be helpful. Only individuals with an @middlebury.edu account can be added to our Drupal sites. If you need to add someone who does not have this type of account, please use the link to request support through the Helpdesk above.
To add a new account:
- Log in to your site using the Site Editor login link at the bottom of the page.
- Click on the People tab in the left sidebar or add /admin/people to the URL.
- Click the blue + Add User button in the top right.
- Enter the @middlebury.edu email address in the Email address field.
- Enter the @middlebury.edu email address in the Username field.
- Enter a long, impossible to guess, random string of characters in the Password field. The user will log in using Middlebury's account system, not Drupal's, so they will never need to know or use this password. Still, there are several ways to log in using this password so we want it to be complex enough that nobody can ever guess it. You can just hammer on your keyboard for a bit and copy it.
- Give the account the Editor role. You may want to give it other roles too, but Editor is the baseline role that lets that person create and update content on the site.
- Click the blue Create new account button.