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title: "Backend user management"
manual: "TYPO3 Explained"
version: "12.4"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:user-management@12.4"
source: "Administration/UserManagement/Index.rst"
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---

# Backend user management {#user-management}

> [!IMPORTANT]
> This chapter (and the following) cover modules that will only be available for backend users
> with ["admin"](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:admin-user@12.4) access privileges.

We saw earlier that TYPO3 CMS enforces a strict separation of
so-called "frontend" and "backend". The same is true for users:
there are "frontend users", who are web site visitors, and
"backend users", who are editors and administrators.

Working with frontend users is discussed in the [Editors Guide](https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/tutorial-editors/12.4/en-us/AccessControl/Login/Index.html#frontend-login).
We will now look at backend users and how to set up groups and
permissions.

**[Adding Backend Users](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:backendusers@12.4)**

Create additional backend users that will have access to TYPO3's
backend interface.

**[Changing The Backend Language](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:backendlanguages@12.4)**

Setup additional backend languages in TYPO3 allowing users to select
an alternative language to use in the backend.

-   [Adding Backend Users](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:adding-backend-users@12.4)
-   [Changing the backend language](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:changing-the-backend-language@12.4)
-   [Backend Privileges](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:backend-privileges@12.4)
-   [Backend Users](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:backend-users@12.4)
-   [Groups](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:groups-1@12.4)
-   [Setting up User Permissions](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:setting-up-user-permissions-1@12.4)
-   [Page Permissions](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:page-permissions-1@12.4)
-   [Setting up a User](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:setting-up-a-user@12.4)