To me it seems that user/1 doesn't really fit the Drupal data model. You have the instance of an object which is too different from all the other instances of the object. User/1 is one obstacle that slows down Drupal from becoming object-oriented.
<br><br>One workaround of the current design would be to grant user/1 all permissions <span style="font-weight: bold;">except</span>... node/add and comment/reply. This would, at least, put a thick wall between super administrator and content creator functionalities.
<br><br>Shai<br><a href="http://content2zero.com">content2zero</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Knaddison</b> <<a href="mailto:greg@pingvox.com">greg@pingvox.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Dec 10, 2007 12:36 AM, Neil Adair <<a href="mailto:neila@magma.ca">neila@magma.ca
</a>> wrote:<br>> Shai Gluskin wrote:<br>> > He's in the awkward situation of having to give his employee who<br>> > administers the site access to his user account in order for the<br>> > employee to administer the site. And it's not a trivial matter to
<br>> > migrate all his content to another user.<br>> see <a href="http://drupal.org/project/adminrole">http://drupal.org/project/adminrole</a><br>><br><br>Neil - the discussion so far is about whether or not something like
<br>adminrole is a good idea. My contention is that if you believe that<br>using UID1 is bad then using adminrole is nearly as unsafe.<br><br>If you use adminrole but also remove many of the privileges then it<br>becomes more safe. However, most paranoid people feel that it's
<br>better to consciously enable permissions than have that happen<br>automatically.<br><br>Regards,<br>Greg<br><br><br><br>--<br>Greg Knaddison<br>Denver, CO | <a href="http://knaddison.com">http://knaddison.com</a><br>World Spanish Tour |
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