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title: Managing users
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Info:** 
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> #### [User registration](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/user-registration-and-authentication.md)
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> Allow visitors to set up their own accounts on your site. Provide a way for users to sign in using accounts from external systems (such as Active Directory).

> **Info:** 
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> #### [User management](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/user-management.md)
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> Manage the users who work with the system and assign them to sites. Manage the actions that the user performs on the site by assigning the user to roles.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Role management](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/role-management.md)
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> Map permissions to reusable groups of users, such as editors or designers, to which you then assign specific users.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [User avatars](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/user-avatars.md)
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> Allow users to add an image to their user account. Display these images on the live site.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Permissions](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/configuring-permissions.md)
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> Control which actions users can perform in the administration interface and on the live site.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [UI Personalization](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/ui-personalization.md)
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> Set up the administration interface for different types of users in the system. This enables you to tailor the experience users have based on their roles.