Backend privileges: Administrators and System Maintainers

The following chapters cover modules that will only be available for backend users with specific access privileges.

In addition to configuring access rights for backend users or groups as described in Setting up user group permissions, there are "superuser" rights which can be activated for each user.

If a backend user has been created for editing in the backend, he or she should usually not get access to admin or system modules.

You should only give a backend user as much access as is needed. This makes the job easier by automatically deactivating modules and GUI elements that the user does not have access to. It also makes it impossible for a user to damage the system by accidentally doing things he or she should not have been able to do in the first place.

Administrators

Screenshot of the TYPO3 backend as seen by an Administrator. The Backend user module menu is opened. — Administrators have access to the System modules, including Permissions, Backend User, Log etc.)

System Maintainers

The first backend admin created during installation will automatically be a system maintainer as well. To give other users system privileges, you can add them in the ADMIN TOOLS > Settings > Manage System Maintainers configuration. Alternatively, the website can be set to "Development" mode in the Install Tool. This will give all admin users system maintainer access.