---
title: "Add a user to a role"
slug: "add-a-user-to-a-role"
abstract: "How to add or remove users from roles to make sure that their access rights reflects their area of responsibility."
---
# Add a user to a role

When a Sitecore user's area of responsibility changes, the roles that the user is a member of must also reflect that change. To do this, you must make the user a member of a different and more relevant role or roles and remove the user from the role that they should no longer be a member of.

To add or remove a user from a role:

1. Open the User Manager, click the relevant user, and then click **Edit**.
2. To add or remove a user from a role, in the **Edit User** dialog box, on the **Member Of** tab, click **Edit**.

    ![BD0590FB65EA40D48BEED8D28C8A200C.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/104/platform-administration-and-architecture/images/BD0590FB65EA40D48BEED8D28C8A200C.png)

3. In the **Edit User Roles** dialog box, in the **Available Roles** section, select the roles that you want to make the user a member of and then click **Add**.
    - You can press

        SHIFT

        or

        CTRL

        to select several roles.

    - You can double click a role to add or remove it.

    ![753A6AC8A0E34257B30EEFF19C237376.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/104/platform-administration-and-architecture/images/753A6AC8A0E34257B30EEFF19C237376.png)

    If the relevant roles are not displayed on the first page, use the navigate buttons to browse through all the roles.

4. To revoke a user's membership of a role, in the **Selected Roles** section, click the relevant role and then click **Remove**.
5. When all the relevant roles are selected, click **OK**.