How to assign a role automatically for new user

It's not that hard at all, it requires you to use the user hook (look it up drupal.org as I need to go to bed)... When a new user is created you simply insert the rid into the user_role table using the uid of the created user. There may be an easier way to do it, and if there is I am sure someone will chime in any moment now.

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Not sure if you thought about this or not, but anyways: The authenticated user is always an assigned role by default, so you can tweek the permissions of that role to your liking, and it will be applied automatically.

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Is there a way to do this in 4.6.3? Or would a module need to be created to do this?

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Blue Cobalt
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bump.

We need to have the ability for a person to choose a designated group upon registration (such as "volunteer"), and be automatically assigned to that role. Does anyone have any ideas on how best to accomplish this?

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i'm also interested in this...

Any solution has to make sure that this is done right. Privileged roles (e.g. admin, moderator) should NOT be assigned automatically.

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If you look in the file "user.module" at line 898 you will see the line:

function _user_authenticated_id() {
return db_result(db_query("SELECT rid FROM {role} WHERE name = 'authenticated user'"));
}

Simply change "authenticated user" to the Role name that you would like to default at registration and save the file. Bingo.

bas

Logintoboggan does everything you just asked for

see http://drupal.org/node/34309

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I also need this feature, as I made DokuWiki use the User Data from Drupals Database for Authentification, but DokuWiki needs a Role so it knows what rights the user has. Drupal's standard role (authentificated user) is not in the role table of the database, so that's the problem why I need to make another role and assign it to every new user.

Regards, MG

This problem was solved in a comment on another thread: http://drupal.org/node/28379#comment-132430 I succesfully used a modified version of that snippet for a recent site.

If you need assistance creating the module or using that snippet consider the guide to module developers or hiring someone to write it for you.

Regards,
Greg

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Rules is a great solution if you don't want to write your own module.