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This is only relevant for use with the authentication setting Curator Users
If you’re using Curator Users as the authentication source (or SAML IdP), the system will enable administrators to manage the frontend users. To enable management of frontend users:
  1. Navigate to the backend of the system (e.g. http://curatorexample.com/backend).
  2. Log in if prompted.
  3. Click on Settings > Security > Authentication Settings in the left navigation.
  4. Select “Curator Users” for the authentication type.
  5. Click on the “Save” button.
To manage frontend users:
  1. Navigate to the backend of the system (e.g. http://curatorexample.com/backend).
  2. Log in if prompted.
  3. Click on the Settings > Users > Frontend Users in the left navigation.
  4. Click on the “New Frontend User” button to create a new user, or click on an existing user to modify user details or permissions.
The Password field has an eye icon at its right edge. Click it to reveal what you have typed, and click it again to hide it. This only ever shows text you typed in the current session — the field is always empty when the form loads, so an existing password is never revealed.
If you’re using an external identity provider instead of Curator Users, see Just-in-time (JIT) Provisioning for how Frontend User accounts are created automatically on first sign-in.
There is no bulk or CSV import for Frontend Users in the backend UI — the “New Frontend User” button and each user’s edit form both create or update one user at a time. To create many users without repeating those steps manually, script calls to the /user/createFrontendUser API endpoint or the usermgmt:frontendusercreate artisan command instead. This is unrelated to the Frontend Group Batch Create feature, which creates groups, not users.