Administering users in Odoo

In any ERP system, it is important that you completely understand how users and user access rights are managed. When Odoo is first installed, an admin account is created automatically. This is a superuser account, and it is the only one like it. In some systems, any account can be specified to have full administration privileges. Odoo, however, gives permissions to the administration account that no other user in the system has.

Specifically, all access rights are bypassed when using the administrator account. Much like the root account in Linux or Ubuntu, you always need to protect your administration account by using a strong password and keeping it secret.

Selecting a user to administer

Let's begin looking at a user in Odoo and how they are tied to partner records within the rest of the Odoo applications.

To access the list of users, click Settings in the main menu and then choose Users from the Users section in the left-hand menu:

We can now click on Terry Ziegler...