Title: [Plugin: Role Manager] create user capability
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Role Manager] create user capability

 *  [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
 * (@illutic)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-role-manager-create-user-capability/)
 * When I add the create user capability to (for instance) the subscriber role, 
   they’re able to create users that have the Administrator role (well, I’ve found
   that they also need the edit users capability, but that’s not the point).
 * I think it’s a bit funny that users can create other users with higher roles 
   then their own. Is it possible to give them the ability to only create users 
   with max. their own role? (if the create/edit users capabilities are enabled 
   for that role, ofcourse).

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 *  [bwells](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwells/)
 * (@bwells)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-role-manager-create-user-capability/#post-1062336)
 * Agreed, this would be great to have in one of the next updates.
 *  [Mike Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daledubilowski/)
 * (@daledubilowski)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-role-manager-create-user-capability/#post-1062360)
 * agreed! i’m stuck on this exact problem right now and none of the role manager/
   capability manager tools are able to solve it 🙁
 * anyone?
 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeispoetry/)
 * (@codeispoetry)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-role-manager-create-user-capability/#post-1062387)
 * Agreed. Looks to me like this is simply an asymmetry in the permissions system.
   Analoguous to capabilities like ‘edit own pages’ vs ‘edit others’ pages’ there
   should be capabilities like:
    * create users with same capabilities (or less)*
   manage users with same capabilities/of same role * manage users with lesser capabilities/
   of lower roles
 * The latter is good for giving editors the possibility to manage users (subscribers/
   authors) without being able to make themselves admin or demote the existing admin,
   etc.
 * Indispensable for true multi-user environments I’d say.

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## Tags

 * [capability](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/capability/)
 * [create user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/create-user/)
 * [Edit User](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-user/)
 * [role-manager](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/role-manager/)

 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeispoetry/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-role-manager-create-user-capability/#post-1062387)
 * Status: not resolved

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