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Press the "Edit user groups" button to bring up the User rights management screen. This screen can also be accessed by via the link "User rights management" under the Tools section of your sidebar, visible when you are on a page in a user's userspace. In our case, you can find the link when you are
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At this point, you will have changed group membership for User:ThisIsaTest from rollback to (none).
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