I am the admin for a DNN host on our intranet.  I have one portal presently, and am working to set up a child portal. 

My DNN user account is a host user, and it allows me to manage the child portal, obviously.  However, I have a couple developers who do content management on the existing portal, and they only have Admin access to the first portal, and I discovered when they try to log in to the child portal that it does not allow them to log in. 

I thought at first that I needed to create a new account for them on the child portal, but when I attempted to do this it said that a user with that name already exists.  So it seems that their existing account just does not have access to the child portal.  I went through the Admin and Host menus on both the parent and child portal, and could not figure out where I could assign permissions for them to enable their login on the child portal and give them permissions to admin the pages and modules on the child portal. 

How do I do this?

Thanks, that worked.  Rather counter-intuitive, IMO.

It seems like this isn't the optimal behavior from the framework.  I'd expect the host to have an interface for controlling whether accounts have rights to child portals or not, rather than having to "create" an account in the child portal and requiring the account owner present to be able to supply their password as the account is being created.  This there anything presently on the DNN project road map to address this?

This custom module migh help

http://www.snowcovered.com/Snowcovered2/Default.aspx?tabid=242&PackageID=9869