#### Outline

- User module has general function of user and group management. It provides functions of 'Edit Users' and 'Groups' in XOOPS 2.0. System Configuration. By using the User Module, you can edit user accounts, change group permission, modify user rank, allow or disallow new user registration, send email messages to users and so on.

#### User Administration(Edit User)

- Administrators can add new user and edit registered user information.
- To add new user to your site, please go to 'Add User'.
- To modify registered user information, click a command button (pencil icon) at the right of the listed user.
- To delete a user form your site, click a delete button (X marked icon) at the right of the listed user.

#### User Ranks

- Administrators can edit User Rank settings. User Rank is displayed on posts in forums and user profiles.
- To modify a registered user rank setting, click a command button (pencil icon) at the right of the listed rank.
- To delete a registered user rank setting, click delete button (X marked icon) at the right of the listed rank.

#### Edit Groups

- Administrators can edit group settings including permission to access blocks, modules and administration functions to each group.
- To add new group to your site, please go to 'Add Group' at upper right of the page.
- If you add new group to your site, name of the new group would be listed. After adding a new group, you need to modify the group settings.
- To modify a registered user rank setting, click a command button (pencil icon) at the right of the listed groups.
- To add a new user to the group, click a command button (add member) at the right of the listed groups.
- To delete users from group, select a user from group members list, then click delete button.

##### (Tips)

- Each user may belong to multiple groups. For easy maintenance, we suggest to set up a general (standard) group, then add special groups which has minimum privileges as needed.
- You can check the settings of each group by clicking command button (property) at the right of the listed groups. To check group settings, we recommend to check the property, to add test user ID for each group, then login with the test ID and see how your site looks in each group.

#### Mail Users

- Administrators can send mass email or newsletter to registered users. You may narrow down recipient of emails by registered date, last login date and so on. It may be useful to send welcome messages to new users, to send email notification to persons who has not accessed to your website for a certain period.

#### Preferences

- Administrators may modify settings of accepting or rejecting new user registration, how to activate new user registration, minimum and maximum length of username/password, registration disclaimer at registration page and so on.