Permissions Superuser

Overview

This module creates a 'superuser' role, and grants all permissions to that role. It also defines a new permission, 'administer software updates', which allows any user with the superuser role to run update.php without having to alter the $access_check (D5) or $update_free_access (D6) variables.

This module requires the Permissions API module.

Rationale

This module also disables the user 1 account. The security benefit is that this greatly reduces the attack surface for privilege escalation attacks on the user 1 account.

Maintainer

Developed and maintained by Erich Beyrent.

Status

• Drupal 5
• Drupal 6
• Drupal 7
  • This functionality is native to Drupal 7, and there are no plans to port this module to that version.

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