Give Amabrik access to your Drupal site

If you’d rather not add the Amabrik snippet yourself, Amabrik can install it for you. To do that we need an account with the Administrator role on your Drupal site. The safest way to grant it is to create a separate Administrator user for us, not to share your own login or the User 1 account.

A dedicated user is safer because you can see exactly what we do, you never reveal your own password, and you can block or delete our access in a moment when the install is done. The steps below take a couple of minutes.

Before you start, you need to be an administrator yourself, since only an administrator can add users. If you’re not sure, see Create an admin account on Drupal first.

Use the email Amabrik gives you

When you submit the Request Installation form, Amabrik confirms the exact email address to use for the new user. Use that email, and only that email, when you create the account below. Don’t guess an address. Drupal requires an email to create any user, and it’s where the account notification gets sent, so the address has to be the one Amabrik confirmed to you.

1. Open People > Add user

1. Sign in to your site at yourdomain.com/user/login.
2. In the Manage administration menu, go to People (yourdomain.com/admin/people).
3. Click the Add user button (this opens yourdomain.com/admin/people/create).

2. Fill in the new user

1. Email address: enter the exact email Amabrik confirmed to you when you submitted the Request Installation form. This is required.
2. Username: type something clear like amabrik-install so it’s easy to spot later.
3. Password and Confirm password: set a password. You don’t need to send it to us by hand. In the next step, keep the notification email checked so Drupal sends the account details to the Amabrik address, and we can request a one-time login link if needed.
4. Status: make sure it’s set to Active, not Blocked, or the account can’t sign in.
5. Roles: this is the important one. Check the Administrator role for the account.
6. Notify user of new account: keep this checked so Drupal emails the account notice to the Amabrik address.
7. Click Create new account.

That’s it. Drupal creates the Administrator account and emails the notice to the Amabrik address, and we add your snippet.

If you ever create the account without the role, you can add it after: go to People, click Edit on the account, check Administrator in the Roles section, and click Save. You can also assign the role in bulk from the People list by selecting the account, choosing the add-Administrator-role action, and clicking Apply to selected items.

Fallback: a temporary login

If creating a user doesn’t work on your setup (some managed or restricted Drupal hosts limit this), you can instead share a temporary admin login with Amabrik. If you go this route:

• Share the login only through the secure channel Amabrik points you to, never in a public email or chat.
• Change your password right after the install is confirmed, so the temporary access ends.

Creating a dedicated Administrator user is still the safer option, so prefer it when you can. Avoid sharing the User 1 login: it has full control of the site and can’t be locked down the way a separate Administrator account can.

Remove the access after install

Once Amabrik confirms the snippet is live, remove our access. You don’t owe us standing access to your site, and good security means revoking it the moment it’s no longer needed.

1. Go to People (yourdomain.com/admin/people).
2. Find the amabrik-install account in the list.
3. The quickest way to end access is to block it: select the account, choose the Block the selected users action, and click Apply to selected items. A blocked account can’t sign in.
4. To remove it entirely, click Edit on the account and choose Cancel account, or select it and use the Cancel the selected user accounts action. Drupal asks what to do with any content the account created. The Amabrik account won’t have authored content, so the default option is fine.

The snippet stays on your site; removing the user does not remove the install. From here, every widget change happens in your Amabrik dashboard, and we never need to touch your Drupal site again.

If you used the temporary-login fallback instead, just change that account’s password to end our access.

FAQ

Why a separate user instead of sharing my login?

You keep your own password private, you can see what the Amabrik user does, and you can block or remove the access afterward. Sharing your main login or User 1 gives away more than needed and is harder to undo.

Why does Drupal ask for an email?

Drupal requires an email for every user, and it sends the account notice there. That’s why you use the address Amabrik confirmed: it’s where we receive access.

Which role should I pick?

Administrator. Adding the snippet needs the ability to edit configuration and add code, which the Administrator role allows. Don’t share the User 1 account for this.

Can I remove the user as soon as I create it?

Wait until Amabrik confirms the install is live. If you remove the account first, we lose access before we’ve finished. Block or cancel it right after we confirm.

Will removing the Amabrik user delete my widgets?

No. The snippet stays on your site, and your widgets are controlled from your Amabrik dashboard. Removing the account only ends our access to your Drupal admin.

My host won’t let me add a user. What now?

Use the temporary-login fallback above, sharing the login through Amabrik’s secure channel, and change the password once the install is confirmed.