Hi there, I read some articles about users and roles on the drupal.org site and got a little confused. Note that i consider myself a newbie to everything Drupal so please pardon this newbiish question. In the article it says not to use the first user id to do "day to day stuff" on the site, i assume that means blog posting and so on, but i can't use the same email for 2 users, which i assume is in order. Still i want to have it clarified what the first user id should be used for and why one should have another one set up. Does it have to do with security or that kind of stuff? How do other drupal gurus out there have their accounts/roles/etc set up? Thanks for any help. /Krister, somewhat confused
Quoting Krister Ekstrom krister@kristersplace.ws:
Hi there, I read some articles about users and roles on the drupal.org site and got a little confused. Note that i consider myself a newbie to everything Drupal so please pardon this newbiish question. In the article it says not to use the first user id to do "day to day stuff" on the site, i assume that means blog posting and so on, but i can't use the same email for 2 users, which i assume is in order. Still i want to have it clarified what the first user id should be used for and why one should have another one set up. Does it have to do with security or that kind of stuff? How do other drupal gurus out there have their accounts/roles/etc set up?
The first user has full rights to Drupal administration always. Roles can be created to allow specific administrative rights and then assigned to someone for specific workflow function. Depending on your needs it may or may not make sense to use roles to control the workflow functions. You will need to determine yourself if there is enough concern to protect the first user against security threats by using it daily.
Earnie
User #1 automatically gets all permissions to modify the site in any way. All other users get their permissions from their assigned role(s).
In a personal site, using user #1 for day to day jobs does not matter much, and other users could be allowed to do different things by assigning roles. However...
There was a case a few months ago where the administrator of a community site (who was using user id #1) had been replaced and the new administrator needed to (a) take over user id #1 (b) revoke the permissions of the old administrator (c) retain the posts of the old administrator.
As it was, some non-trivial database hacking was needed to move the posts of the old admin to a new account. Everything would be very easy if they both used their own user IDs and were assigned/unassigned roles.
It is true that a different email address has to be used for user #1. You can always use a forwarding address.
On 5/13/07, Krister Ekstrom krister@kristersplace.ws wrote:
Hi there, I read some articles about users and roles on the drupal.org site and got a little confused. Note that i consider myself a newbie to everything Drupal so please pardon this newbiish question. In the article it says not to use the first user id to do "day to day stuff" on the site, i assume that means blog posting and so on, but i can't use the same email for 2 users, which i assume is in order. Still i want to have it clarified what the first user id should be used for and why one should have another one set up. Does it have to do with security or that kind of stuff? How do other drupal gurus out there have their accounts/roles/etc set up? Thanks for any help. /Krister, somewhat confused -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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