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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Next: Users Up: Creating, Deleting, and Changing Previous: Group Authority   Contents Role Membership AuthoritySometimes an administrator may want to delegate the creation and management of user accounts to other users. For example, the administrator might allow a specific person in the marketing department to create and manage user accounts that can read and post to the marketing group's newsgroups. The Role Membership Authority property in combination with the Admin Level property can be used to control this process. Suppose, for example, that the marketing department's newsgroups all have names that start with ``marketing.'' and that the administrator wants to create a user account that can create other users who can read and post to these newsgroups but cannot create users who can read or post to other newsgroups. Also this special user should be able to create and manage newsgroups whose names begin with ``marketing.''. The administrator would first create a new role named MarketingAdmin and set that role's properties as follows:
Next the administrator would create a new role named MarketingReader and set that role's properties as follows:
Finally the administrator would create a new user named MarketingAdmin and set that user's properties as follows:
Now the MarketingAdmin user is able to:
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