This morning I probably spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to add an additional admin user to Magento. And although it turned out to be really easy, it took some digging to find the answer on the net. I finally found the answer on the forum board:

  1. In your magento admin backend, go to Admin> System> Permissions> Users.
  2. Click “Add new user”
  3. Enter the user’s information.
  4. Be sure to click on the “user roles” tab on the left menu to assign the account to a role. (You can create more limited-capability roles using ADMIN> System> Permissions> Roles so that users can’t reset anything too deadly if you want.)
  5. Save user.

10-31-2009 2-49-37 PM

Hopefully this post helps to save someone else wasting 15 minutes looking for the answer on the magento forums.