Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

sseguin · Post by **sseguin** » Fri May 27, 2016 9:14 pm

Hello. I have a site with several user groups defined

Admin Level 1
-Admin Level 2
--Admin Level 3

Ideally I want level 1 users to not be able to use the user manager to either upgrade themselves or create new users in groups 2 or 3. Same for level 2 users, prevent level 3 editing or creation.

Any way to accomplish this?

Thank you.

sozzled · Post by **sozzled** » Fri May 27, 2016 10:34 pm

This may not be very helpful, but I'm not sure how you can do that or, perhaps equally importantly, whether you should. It really boils down to the question of who can access the Joomla backend and what they can do when they get there. The question is also open for discussion about how many people should have administrator rights.

I'm guessing that you could probably define levels of access to the User Manager with Joomla ACLs—I wouldn't want to lead you in the wrong direction—but I suspect it's fairly complicated. Perhaps, by the time someone replies to this topic, you will get the answer but you may decide that, in the long run, it isn't worth the effort. I would suggest that you could look at the "problem" laterally: ask yourself, do I really need all of these administrators getting into the backend and doing things that I don't want them to be able to do?

sseguin · Post by **sseguin** » Fri May 27, 2016 11:12 pm

Hi, unfortunately there are a few groups of people on our staff that do require Administrator Back-end access to maintain the site, as we post 50-70 pieces minimum per day. ACL has already been set for everything else and restricted to what they require, however this is the final step to really be through in the setup.

sozzled · Post by **sozzled** » Fri May 27, 2016 11:19 pm

True. Maybe you could restrict their backend access to Manager? Manager (instead of Administrator) will still give them backend access but they would limited to creating/editing article content. Just a suggestion.

sseguin · Post by **sseguin** » Sat May 28, 2016 1:18 am

They already have ACL setup for the access they need, but I just need to restrict them to which user groups they can create. Please refer to the original post at the top.

sozzled · Post by **sozzled** » Sat May 28, 2016 1:37 am

sseguin wrote:Please refer to the original post at the top.

Sorry. OK ... I can't help you with that. Good luck

sseguin · Post by **sseguin** » Sat May 28, 2016 1:45 am

No worries, thank you for your comments and suggestions though.

sovainfo · Post by **sovainfo** » Wed Jun 22, 2016 9:54 am

Suggest to check Community or Membership extensions, they normally extend the account management of core Joomla. It is a all or nothing situation for account management in Joomla core. Unless you use external account management (LDAP etc).

sseguin · Post by **sseguin** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:45 pm

Has there been any newer way of accomplishing this discovered?

The Joomla! Forum™

Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves

Re: Prevent users from creating higher group users than themselves