[support] A little clarification about accounts and user roles, please

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Krister Ekstrom <krister at 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