[support] Drupal 6 administrator

[Marty Landman]

Wow Trevor I am blown away by the number of sites that report using 
this module. Personally I figure it's kind of a bad idea to have 
multiple admin accounts. Apparently lots and lots of sites feel differently.

Marty

At 02:52 PM 9/23/2011, Trevor Twining wrote:
>You might also want to check the admin_role module
>
><http://drupal.org/project/adminrole>http://drupal.org/project/adminrole
>
>I don't think it specifically addresses your concern about your 
>custom access perms, but it will help you keep all perms available 
>to your admin users in an easier manner.
>
>TT
>
>On 2011-09-23, at 2:49 PM, Marty Landman wrote:
>
>>Thanks for that Nancy. I don't see ByRole as my primary issue
>>necessarily, more I'm afraid it's symptomatic of the real issue that
>>perhaps sharing the user/1 account is the only sensible thing to do
>>prior to Drupal 7 where there actually is an admin role.
>>
>>Marty
>>
>>At 02:40 PM 9/23/2011, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:
>>>I don't really recommend it, but on every site I've worked on with
>>>multiple top-level admins, they share the user/1 account. But, if
>>>ByRole is your primary issue, then open a feature request with that module.
>>>
>>>Nancy
>>>
>>>Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin
>>>L. King, Jr.
>>>
>>>
>>>From: Marty Landman
>>>
>>>I was asked to set up multiple admin accounts on a D6 site and
>>>created new users and gave them all the permissions available on the
>>>perm matrix. However not only is this a bit cumbersome and error
>>>prone, especially with multiple administrators :-) it also appears to
>>>not always work; ie. I've just realized that the view/edit
>>>permissions checkboxes provided on node edits by the node privacy
>>>byrole module is only available to user 1 and not my other admin account.
>>>
>>>Is there a recommended workaround, short of when we eventually 
>>>upgrade to D7?
>>>
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