# Registering users
This documentation page tells you how to create user account on your Matrix server.
Table of contents:
- [Registering users ](#registering-users )
- [Registering users manually ](#registering-users-manually )
- [Managing users via a Web UI ](#managing-users-via-a-web-ui )
- [Letting certain users register on your private server ](#letting-certain-users-register-on-your-private-server )
- [Enabling public user registration ](#enabling-public-user-registration )
- [Adding/Removing Administrator privileges to an existing user ](#addingremoving-administrator-privileges-to-an-existing-user )
## Registering users manually
You can do it via this Ansible playbook (make sure to edit the `<your-username>` and `<your-password>` part below):
```
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --extra-vars='username=< your-username > password=< your-password > admin=< yes | no > ' --tags=register-user
```
**or** using the command-line after **SSH** -ing to your server (requires that [all services have been started ](#starting-the-services )):
```
/matrix/synapse/bin/register-user < your-username > < your-password > < admin access: 0 or 1 >
```
**Note**: `<your-username>` is just a plain username (like `john` ), not your full `@<username>:<your-domain>` identifier.
**You can then log in with that user** via the Element service that this playbook has created for you at a URL like this: `https://element.<domain>/` .
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If you've just installed Matrix, **to finalize the installation process** , it's best if you proceed to [Configuring service discovery via .well-known ](configuring-well-known.md )
## Managing users via a Web UI
To manage users more easily (via a web user-interace), you can install [Synapse Admin ](configuring-playbook-synapse-admin.md ).
## Letting certain users register on your private server
If you'd rather **keep your server private** (public registration closed, as is the default), and **let certain people create accounts by themselves** (instead of creating user accounts manually like this), consider installing and making use of [matrix-registration ](configuring-playbook-matrix-registration.md ).
## Enabling public user registration
To **open up user registration publicly** (usually **not recommended** ), consider using the following configuration:
```yaml
matrix_synapse_enable_registration: true
```
and running the [installation ](installing.md ) procedure once again.
If you're opening up registrations publicly like this, you might also wish to [configure CAPTCHA protection ](configuring-captcha.md ).
## Adding/Removing Administrator privileges to an existing user
The script `/usr/local/bin/matrix-change-user-admin-status` may be used to change a user's admin privileges.
* log on to your server with ssh
* execute with the username and 0/1 (0 = non-admin | 1 = admin)
```
/usr/local/bin/matrix-change-user-admin-status < username > < 0 / 1 >
```
