 <p><a href="http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yii-user/" rel="nofollow">Yii User</a> is not meant for adding roles to users, it only handles user account management.</p> <p>You may install an additional extension like rights, auth or srbac (see <a href="http://www.yiiframework.com/extensions/?category=1&amp;sort=rating.desc" rel="nofollow">list</a>) which provides a web-interface for this task.</p>