How to create new role for authenticated user role

You have to understand that I really don't care if your site works or not, I don't work for Drupal, you haven't paid for Drupal, you certainly aren't paying me to give you advice, I'm only here for the karma - so try your best to read, comprehend and just ... try and use a little imagination.

From what you've written above I gather that you need to create a 'group of roles'? Each will share common set of permissions plus each will have a few extra/ separate permissions as well. This is what Drupal is made for... Here's a little demonstration;

role[co-ordinators]:
permissions;

do stuff
make tea
drink tea
use the telephone

role[team leader]:
permissions;

ask people to make tea
wash up tea cups

role[manager]:
permissions;

ask people to make tea
ask people to wash up

Okay... So as this is an example try to imagine this.

User - Jahavi roles - co-ordinators + team leader
User - Pobster roles - co-ordinators + manager

Each user receives ALL the permissions of their combined roles (hence how comes you don't need to check everything the same as normal users). So in my example YOU can do this;

do stuff
make tea
drink tea
use the telephone
ask people to make tea
wash up tea cups

And as I have a different subset of permissions, I get some of the permissions you do - but the manager role differs slightly from the team leader one, so I get;

do stuff
make tea
drink tea
use the telephone
ask people to make tea
ask people to wash up

Notice that I'm NOT allowed to wash up tea cups, but I can ask people to wash them up. You aren't allowed to ask people to wash up but you are able to wash them yourself. You see, it's not a 'role within a role' you're after, merely multiple roles with combined privileges which is how Drupal works any way.

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Pobster

Suppose Super coordinator 1 manages group coordinators 1 and 2 who manage contributors 1 2 3 and 4.

Try something like this:

Create role "contributor A", give it the appropriate permissions, and add the 4 contributors to this role.
Create role "group coordinator A", add the *additional* permissions they need, and add the 2 group coordinators to this role and also to role "contributor A".
Finally, create role "super coordinator A", give it the additional permissions needed by the group coordinator and and Super coordinator to this role, and also to the other two A roles.

This may not be exactly what you want, but I suggest you experiment with the different ways of grouping permissions - you should be able to do what you want, but you need to experiment to get a feel for the way it works and therefore find out how you can achieve exactly what you want.

Note that
1. all logged-in users get the permissions of the built-in "authenticated user" role
2. if you belong to 2 or more roles then you get the permissions of all the roles (i.e. permissions are additive)
3. logged-in users don't get the permissions of the built-in "anonymous" role - the permissions you specify for anonymous are *only* used for visitors who are not logged in.

Note also that the built-in permissions at admin/user/access (the "Access control" page) only enable to you allow "read" permission to all nodes or no nodes (see "access content" permission under the node module section). If you want to control "read" (i.e. view) access to individual nodes, either by node type or by some other way (often taxonomy is used for this) then you will need to use a contributed module such as http://drupal.org/project/tac_lite or the slightly more complicated http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access. There are more: see here http://drupal.org/node/206666#DRUPAL-5, or http://drupal.org/project/Modules/name. Unfortunately it can be hard to find what you are looking for!

Also if you find you really can't achieve what you want with the standard user role functionality then there are modules that extend the functionality - see http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/76. Also this one may be useful http://drupal.org/project/accounttypes. Again you will need to experiment a bit to find exactly what you want.

Also http://drupal.org/project/og (Organic Groups) and related modules (http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/90) can be useful for organising users and content into "groups" - it is used on http://groups.drupal.org. This may be overkill for you, or it may be just what you need - only you can say, after you've tried it out.

Good luck!

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

You can create new roles now and set premissions for these roles, right. Plus you have a automatic user role and a anonymous user role, created by drupal.

Under -> Administer ->User management->Users, you click on the name and then 'Edit account', there you can assign all the roles you want to a user. Only authenticated user and anonymous user you will not see there, because once a user is registered, he is already an authenticated user (but you don't need to give any permissions to authenticated users, if you don't want).

And so you can easily fine-graind your permissions, because PERMISSIONS OF ROLES ARE ADDED.

Lets say you have
Role A
Role B
Role C

You give User 1 Role A -> He will have permissions for Role A (and authenticated and anonymous)
You give User 2 Role A, B and C -> He will have permissions for Role A, B and C (and authenticated and anonymous)
You give User 3 Role C -> He will have permissions for Role C. (and authenticated and anonymous)

So, more I cannot help you.

Good luck!

You might want to investigate the account type module.