How to hide administrator from users' list

Hi there is a few ways to hide the administrator from the users list.

The way I did it was:
[Note: There is also a tutorial that may provide you with a better way of doing this. It is located in the theme developers guide under customizing the user listing page I think.]

// This will stop the root user from showing up in the listing page. This code goes in your profile_listing.tpl.php file.
if($user->uid != '1') {
  // Inside here write your custom theme code.
}

(If your referring to removing the admin from showing up every where on the site, that is a bigger problem and I am still trying to figure that one out)

I know modifying drupal core is supposed to be a no-no, but this is a really easy one. Find the line in profile.module that looks like:
$result = pager_query('SELECT uid, access FROM {users} WHERE uid > 0 AND status != 0 AND access != 0 ORDER BY access DESC', 20, 0, NULL);
It's in the function "profile_browse" and on line 503 in drupal 5.2.

Change it to:
$result = pager_query('SELECT uid, access FROM {users} WHERE uid > 1 AND status != 0 AND access != 0 ORDER BY access DESC', 20, 0, NULL);

Then user 1 doesn't show up on www.example.com/profile

You'll also need to leave all admin user's profile fields blank so they don't show up in the other profile pages, and don't post anything as admin.

This works for me, but of course it won't work if you have more than one admin account. And there's nothing to prevent someone from going to www.example.com/user/1

Valerie
www.beerreviewjournal.com

I wrote a custom module (for 6.x) to achieve this:

hide_admin.info:

name = Hide Admin
description = Hide administrator account (uid 1) from the users list.
package = CSETID
version = VERSION
core = 6.x

And hide_admin.module:

<?php

function hide_admin_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  global $user;
  if($form_id == "user_admin_account" && $user->uid != 1) {
    $keys = array('name', 'status', 'roles', 'member_for', 'last_access', 'operations');
    foreach($keys as $key) {
      unset($form[$key][1]);
    }
    unset($form['accounts']['#options'][1]);
  }
}

?>

Hope this helps.

What good does hiding user 1 from the list if someone can still just go to http://somesite.com/user/1/edit?

If a role has "Administer User" permissions he can edit the admin account and then give himself admin privileges.

There has to be a better solution.

I am also looking for a solution. I came across this thread through a friend. WIsh Drupal had tons of plugins like Wordpress.