Comparison of user edit protection modules

Many site admins wish to prevent users from changing certain attributes in their profile or other users' profiles (password, e-mail, username and custom profile fields). This table will attempt compare and contrast the modules available for this task. Note that in addition to these modules there is the "change own username" permission available in Drupal's core user module.

Module	Guest	User Read only	User Protect	Restrict password change	Protect critical users
Latest D8 release	none yet	none yet	8.x-1.0	8.x-1.0	Functionality in Core
Latest D7 release	none yet	7.x-1.5	7.x-1.2	7.x-1.0	Functionality in Core
Latest D6 release	6.x-1.2	6.x-1.4	6.x-1.5	6.x-1.3	6.x-1.1
Restrict own password change	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Restrict own e-mail change	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Restrict own custom profile fields change	Y	N	N	N	N
Restrict other users' password change	N	N	Y	Y	N
Restrict other users' e-mail change	N	N	Y	Y	N
Restrict other users' username change	N	N	Y	N	N
Restrict other users' custom profile fields change	N	N	N	N	N
Restrict deleting other users	N	N	Y	Y	Y

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