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This is a question that seems to straddle the boundary between a Core and an add-on Module.

I wish to appoint someone to the role of managing the FEU users of my site, to perform such tasks as disabling and re-enabling individual accounts, setting group memberships, confirming registrations, etc.

However, I do not wish to give this person any other "admin" control over the site, its content, or configuration/module settings, templates, etc.

The rationale here is the "KISS Principle." I don't want somebody messing with what I have set up. If something were to break I want it to be my fault, exclusively.

How may (or can) this be configured?

make a group that only has the "manage frontend users" permission?

mcDavid wrote:make a group that only has the "manage frontend users" permission?

That permission, by itself, seems only to get the junior admin account to see an otherwise empty FEU management form.

When adding other permissions such as Add/Edit/Delete users, the junior admin is able to manipulate both Front End (non-admin) and Back End (admin) accounts, with the sole exception of the "super admin" account (i.e. the site creator's).

Since the "super admin" account seems to be off-limits, I am wondering whether there's an easy way to further constrain the activities of the junior admin to Front End users and the groups of which they are members.

there's a checkbox in the FEU preferences for that.

mcDavid wrote:there's a checkbox in the FEU preferences for that.

Ohhhh.... that teeny little checkbox there!

Thank you.

For the record, and I'll mark the original post as "solved" momentarily, is that to accomplish what is wanted, one must go to the Front End User Management module, and on its Preference tab activate the "Use Front-end User specific permissions" checkbox. This will cause a number of additional permissions to appear in the Group Permissions module that were not shown previously, e.g. "Add Front-End Users," "Modify Front-End User Group Assignments." Those that have "front end" in their names are the ones of interest in this case.

It works very nicely for me now.

Regards