How to assign users to a group

Question

How do I assign users to a group in Drupal 7? Basically I wanted to have following groups in my website.

1. Administrators
2. Content Writer and Publisher
3. Registered users

I wanted to assign all of the newly registered users to "Registered users" group automatically and I as a member of administrator should be able to assign some trusted users into "Content Writer and Publisher" group.

Each of these groups will have different-2 permissions as expected.

Answer 1

From a permission point of view, (instead of groups) these are called "roles" in Drupal. (From a content-user-access point of view there is the Organic groups module, but that's another story.)

You can administer roles at admin/people/permissions/roles. You can mass assign users to roles at admin/people (Update options - Add a role to selected users).

All registered users automatically have a role called "authenticated user", so there is no need to duplicate that functionality.

For more info check out "Managing access control with permissions and user roles" at https://drupal.org/node/22275

Answer 2

Check out Registration Role:

From the module's project page:

Registration role lets an administrator select a role to automatically assign to new users. The selected role will be assigned to new registrants.

It assigns a selected role on signup of a new user.

Answer 3

I use - Role field, Rules. Create field role and assign this role from Rules module.