Add a user and grant the right access

Use Users to create a human account and choose the Projects and permissions it can use. You need actual Elowen administrator access; reading this admin article does not grant it.

Create a human account

1. Open Users and choose New user.
2. Enter a unique Username and a password of at least eight characters.
3. Choose a Preset, or leave the account without one.
4. Assign at least one Project in Projects: create a new personal Project or select an existing one.
5. Select Create.

Grant only required access

Later human accounts, including administrators, use the selected preset or start without model, tool and grant-gated plugin access. The first administrator is a special bootstrap case. Open the account and review Permissions: select allowed models, grant only needed user-grantable plugins, and enable required tools. All models includes models added later. Plugin grants do not bypass Project, filesystem or tool-permission checks. An Administrator can manage users, configuration and grants; a Member can access only assigned Projects. Do not grant an administrator role just to provide a model or tool.

Verify access

Confirm the account appears in Users, its intended Project is assigned, and model, plugin and tool access match the task. A member needs at least one active Project. If the installation does not offer a model, a user grant cannot make it available; configure a provider first. See Account presets and Users & Access.

Common failures

An occupied username must be changed. The password must have at least eight characters and the account needs an active Project. If a tool is unavailable because its plugin is not granted, grant that plugin first. Chat-platform administrator status does not grant instance administration.