Backend Admin Management

Need Help
#1

For a client project, I created an account for an admin, a role ‘Admin’ with the permission to create and manage other admin.
When he tries to create a new admin, he can’t select a role (which exists) and cant save the new admin.

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Is that expected ?

Do I need to give him access to manage roles so he can create an admin ?

thanks

#2

Hi @chris,

That’s expected. In OctoberCMS, an admin can only manage roles below their own in the hierarchy (check Settings → User Roles, where roles are reorderable).

  • If you’re on v3, the only way is to create a role that sits below “Admin” so it can be assigned.
  • If you’re on v4+, you can optionally disable strict hierarchy by adding this to config/backend.php:
'strict_role_hierarchy' => false,

This allows admins to manage users with the same role.

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#3

yes indeed, I realized that as well while looking at the backend code handling backend users and roles.

thanks @apinard

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