[drupal-support] User Admin and 4.6

[Dan Robinson]

Yeah - I sat there staring at the thing for 5 minutes thinking "shoot, 
now what do I do....?"  It would be helpful if there was more verbage 
around this.

Dan

> Dan Robinson wrote:
>
>> 2) When I browse to the site for the first time I am faced with 
>> creating a new user.  The register page is asking for an email and 
>> telling me it will email me the password.  Since sending mail is not 
>> really an option on my WinXP box it seems like this will never work.  
>> I try anyway and viola - I get the password presented to me in the 
>> browser.  I assume this is because the mail failed etc. etc. 
>
>
> Nope, the password is always present in the browser to the first user 
> (User ID == 1, essentially the super user or super admin of a Drupal 
> site).  Likewise, user number 1 never gets e-mail during this initial 
> creation.  The assumption is that you have just installed your 
> software and are just creating your first user, which needs to happen 
> quickly for security purposes.
>
> The documentation and explanatory text could be improved.
>
> -- 
> Chris Johnson
>