[support] Drupal 6 administrator

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Sep 26 14:32:21 UTC 2011


On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:12:20 -0400, Trevor Twining wrote:

> 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. 
>

As you point out, only UID 1 can update a module or Drupal with
update.php.  Do not attempt this with another user.

Earnie


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