On 7/26/07, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Development testing should never be done as user #1 unless testing installation or update routines. In fact, nothing but install and update should be done as user #1.
I see your point here about how it has been confusing to Ron that uid1 could see everything, but I'm not sure I follow the rest of the logic. To me, I don't see a problem with using uid1. I know lots of folks feel strongly about this, but there's also a prominent case[1] or two[2] of smart people doing otherwise. There is even the whole masquerade code in the devel module which makes it easy to switch between uid1 and a normal user during development to facilitate Ron's exact situation. Just yesterday I edited bullet item 1 on 22284 to include all of the arguments on this issue that I was able to glean from the folks that were in IRC when I was digging into the issue. Given that investigation and rewrite, I don't understand the strength of the "don't use uid 1" argument. So, if folks feel strongly one way or another could they please edit that page (or respond here) with some of the reasons why you should "never use user #1". If you're going to say "for the same reasons as you never use root on unix" then please take the time to enumerate those reasons - I'm not sure I believe that comparison so having the list of reasons would help the discussion. Regards, Greg [1] http://drupal.org/user/1 [2] http://groups.drupal.org/user/1 -- Greg Knaddison Denver, CO | http://knaddison.com World Spanish Tour | http://wanderlusting.org/user/greg