[documentation] Administrator account 6 vs 7

[Peter Dowling]

Regarding "not possible due to code freeze".  As per Dries user
experience issues are one of the 10 exceptions to code freeze.  If this
is confusing to typical or new users then I don't think it would be an
issue as long as there was agreement.

Anyway, I'll look at the issue.

- Peter

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 14:18 -0400, Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> It is important to note that what we are discussing here is help-text.
> That reference to "admin user" comes up hardly ever in the UI. One
> place is on update.php if you are not user/1. There it says, 
> 
>         Access denied. You are not authorized to access this page.
>         Please log in as the admin user (the first user you created).
> 
> The universal name for that user on every Drupal install is: user/1.
> End users can call it anything they want. That may be a problem in
> itself. Maybe the user name of user/1 should be pre-defined. But I
> think that solution is not possible due to code freeze.
> 
> I think by focusing on "what is the best name for that user" we are
> hyper-ocusing on something the end user needs to create anyway and
> which we can't control. It's also hard to refer to elsewhere in docs
> because end users will have used different user names for it.. In sum
> though, I think the help text in the wizard is the most important
> thing. Following is some suggested help text that I also posted to the
> queue.
> 
>         Please set up your first account now by creating a user name
>         and password and assigning an email address to it. This
>         account has special privileges, unlike any other account that
>         will be set up for the site. All other users are permitted to
>         view pages or perform editorial or administrative activities
>         on the site based on a role or roles that they are assigned
>         to. However, the first user you are creating now can do
>         everything. By definition, there are no limitations that can
>         be placed on this first user (sometimes described as a
>         "super-user" or as "user/1"). 
>         
>         In addition, it is only the first user who can perform updates
>         to Drupal or its contributed modules. 
>         
>         If the person creating the first account is also going to be
>         adding content to the site, it is a best practice to create a
>         separate account for creating the content. For example, for
>         the first account, use "firstaccount" for the user name and
>         for the account under which you'll post content use "Jane
>         Smith," substituting your real name for "Jane Smith."
>         
>         
> 
> Everyone... please go to the queue and post, that is where things get
> processed toward a solution:  
> http://drupal.org/node/570572
> 
> Shai
> 
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