<div>Thanks Antonio - and yes, I use adminrole.module on all of my sites too - another "brand" module in my view. Does anyone know if adminrole.module and masquerade.module are integrated? Or whether such integration is straightforward/desirable?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm thinking specifically of masquerade.module + (security patch) integrating with adminrole.module, to provide a one-click solution to the problem I originally described.</div><br clear="all">--Jim<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/9 Antonio P. P. Almeida <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:appa@perusio.net">appa@perusio.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 9 Ago 2010 19h00 WEST, <a href="mailto:james.benstead@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.benstead@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Thanks, Andrew - I think I'll implement the current version of<br>
Masquerade for the moment (great module, btw - I use it on all of my<br>
dev sites) and then work on integrating this functionality in a<br>
patch when I've got more time - will allow me to learn more about<br>
Drupal security, too. Masquerade is a "brand" module in my view so<br>
there's really no need to fork it.<br>
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--Jim<br>
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You might also consider admin role<br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/project/adminrole" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/adminrole</a>, in slightly different vein. It<br>
allows to concede other users some of the powers of UID 1. You can't<br>
run update.php with it. But it allows you to exercise some degree of<br>
latitude in allocating privileges on a Drupal site. Usually when you<br>
enable a new module the users with role "administrator" inherit all<br>
the privileges regarding that module permissions.<br>
<br>
It's a different route. I don't think that sudo <everything> like<br>
Ubuntu does is a good policy. You tend to loose the perspective on how<br>
powerful the sudo facility is IMO.<br>
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HTH,<br><font color="#888888">
--- appa<br>
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