Enable client to add users to user group but not set permissions

Question

I need my client (typical editor account in CMS) to be able to add/modify/delete users in the CP. I don't want him to have access to groups/permissions for users, but I need to put every user he creates into the same group (Site Users).

The existing plugin - https://github.com/lindseydiloreto/craft-autoassignusergroup - doesn't work if the client doesn't have the "Assign user groups and permissions" checked.

Is there a way to force every new user created in the CP by the client into a default group? Or a way to give him "Assign user groups" but not "and permissions"?

Answer 1

doesn't work if the client doesn't have the "Assign user groups and permissions" checked.

That's not a limitation of the plugin, but a requirement of Craft.

Is there a way to force every new user created in the CP by the client into a default group?

Yes, that's what the previously linked plugin will do, with the caveat that the currently logged in user has to have assignUserPermissions permissions.

The only way I can think of to do what you're trying to accomplish is build the user administration stuff for your client on the front-end of the site. That way - though a plugin - you've got complete control over the user management business logic.