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Adam Bergstein
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Adam Bergstein

Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member, a routine speaker at Drupal community events around the globe, and provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal Community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association.
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Users

Drupal core has a subsystem for user management. The foundational feature serves as the tool in which users can access Drupal’s backend systems. This is fundamental for site builders and content managers.

User entity

The user subsystem starts with the user entity. This entity, like others, is built on top of the entity system and is afforded structured data and management for Drupal users.

The user entity is fieldable. Enabling fields for users affords the ability for site builders to configure user profiles. By default, the user entity has a username, password, and email, all of which can’t be modifiable but can be harnessed by the features in the user subsystem.

Features

The user subsystem has several features that are built on top of the user entity.

Users can log into Drupal to perform administrative actions and manage content, as well as site-building. This leverages the entity’s username and password. The following figure shows Drupal...

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Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633104

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Adam Bergstein

Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member, a routine speaker at Drupal community events around the globe, and provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal Community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association.
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