Dealing with user accounts is an essential part of Drupal development. You’ll find yourself needing to:

• Change the password for a user
• Change the password for the admin account on your local site so you can login as admin
• Block a user to prevent them from logging in
• Create new user accounts
• Add a role to a user account so you can test permissions

You can do all of this in the Drupal admin interface, but it takes time. Fortunately, Drush has a rich set of commands to help you save time while performing these necessarily user related chores. And who doesn’t want to save time?

Jump straight to the cheatsheet, or read on for a more detailed list of commands.