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Search is off so please forgive me if this is a duplicate question.
How can I add a second admin with special privileges to my primary drupal install? This is the admin not the 'administrator' user.
Also, what are all the special privileges?
Thanks in advance.
J
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Under the user settings,
Under the user settings, create a new role, such as 'admin page', then add a user, give the permissions you like. Most of these settings are configured under the User configuration page. You can set up as many roles you like, with special permissions.
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You can also use the admin role module to automatically assign all privileges to the role of your choice. You can't create another "user 1" so the only other way is to simply assign all privs to a role and then select users who will get that role. Note that you will still need the real user 1 account to rn upgrade.php unless you manually change the check on the file.
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user 1
Thank you both for your responses.
I'm a noob so please be patient.
It is the user 1 that I wish to share with another user. I have given her the "administrator" role and checked everythinng but she is still unable to access flexifilters or input formats. I'd like to give her as much control as possible..short of upgrading.php
Have I missed something?
Thank you
J
Share username and password...
Why not just give her your superadmin username and password? The only difference would be that you would both be sharing a common account and not have individual profiles, tracking, etc... So, unless that matters to either of you, the difference is negligible.
We have two superadmins working on our sites at any given time, and in our case, it helps to share the same account. That way, we can each see what the other has done and we don't have another role/account to manage.
Just a thought ;)
> Have I missed
> Have I missed something?
Nope. Drupal permissions just aren't that finely tuned.
But are you aware that you shouldn't be using uid1 as your normal account? You should only log-in to that account during upgrades, or if there are protected settings that need edited on occasion. So rather than upgrading your other admin, you should actually be thinking about downgrading yourself!
uid1 shouldn't need to be accessed very often once the site is set-up and running. Sharing the uid1 account with one or two trusted others is fine, so long as only one person has access to the hosting account, ftp and database.
Cheers.
Input formats should be available
I've never used Flexifilter so I don't know what it could do to not give access, but I'd say it is a bug if *only* user 1 can access it. As for Input formats generally, any role with the "administer filters" perm should have full access to all formats (and that does work on my test site).
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Thank you so much! I'll post
Thank you so much!
I'll post a bug report then.
Thank you all!