Using Drush to manage users

When you need to add an account to Drupal, you will visit the People page and manually add a new user. Drush provides the complete user management for Drupal, from creation to role assignment, password recovery, and deletion. This workflow allows you to create users easily and provides them with a login without having to enter your Drupal site.

In this recipe, we will create a staff role with a staffmember user and log in as that user through Drush.

How to do it…

1. Use the role-create command to create a new role labeled staff:

$ drush role-create staff
 Created "staff" 

2. Use the role-lists command to verify that the role was created in Drupal:

$ drush role-list
ID Role Label 
anonymous Anonymous user 
authenticated Authenticated user 
administrator Administrator 
staff Staff

3. The user-create command will create our user:

$ drush user-create staffmember
User ID : 2 
User name : staffmember 
User roles : authenticated 
User status : 1

4. In order to add the role, we will need...