[support] Drupal 6 administrator

[Trevor Twining]

I understand what you're saying, but you should only use admin (uid =1) for things that absolutely require that level of access (like site/module updates as the most obvious example). For most other use cases you want a fully enabled admin role, but could have just one user with that role. I would expect many sites use that module to provide that kind of access. Having said that, we do have multiple admins for our sites, but typically a primary point of contact. That allows anyone on our team to potentially do the admin work (without sharing passwords), but one person is usually responsible. 

On 2011-09-23, at 3:07 PM, Marty Landman wrote:

> 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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