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/adminrolehttp://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
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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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