[support] A little clarification about accounts and user roles, please

[Cog Rusty]

User #1 automatically gets all permissions to modify the site in any
way. All other users get their permissions from their assigned
role(s).

In a personal site, using user #1 for day to day jobs does not matter
much, and other users could be allowed to do different things by
assigning roles. However...

There was a case a few months ago where the administrator of a
community site (who was using user id #1) had been replaced and the
new administrator needed to
(a) take over user id #1
(b) revoke the permissions of the old administrator
(c) retain the posts of the old administrator.

As it was, some non-trivial database hacking was needed to move the
posts of the old admin to a new account. Everything would be very easy
if they both used their own user IDs and were assigned/unassigned
roles.

It is true that a different email address has to be used for user #1.
You can always use a forwarding address.


On 5/13/07, Krister Ekstrom <krister at kristersplace.ws> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I read some articles about users and roles on the drupal.org site and
> got a little confused. Note that i consider myself a newbie to
> everything Drupal so please pardon this newbiish question.
> In the article it says not to use the first user id to do "day to day
> stuff" on the site, i assume that means blog posting and so on, but i
> can't use the same email for 2 users, which i assume is in order. Still
> i want to have it clarified what the first user id should be used for
> and why one should have another one set up. Does it have to do with
> security or that kind of stuff? How do other drupal gurus out there have
> their accounts/roles/etc set up?
> Thanks for any help.
> /Krister, somewhat confused
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