Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] admin and tiki_p_admin

[Damian P. <da...@da...>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:42:45AM -0400, Sylvie Greverend wrote:
> There is some places in tikwiki where the admin named 'admin' has not
> exactly the same perms than a user with tiki_p_admin
> Exemple: the modules
> 
> For instance, the modules. You can with appropriate configuration have some
> modules displayed for tiki_p_admin and some not . But if you are 'admin' you
> will see all the modules
> Strange behaviour
> 1) is it a bug?
> 2) do we need an additionnal perm 'admin' as user 'admin'?
> 3) do we need only in the case of the modules, to add an additionnal
> parameter "displays all the module to the 'admin' user" - this can be
> convenient to see all the modules some times?
> 
> Any idea?
> Thanks
> Sylvie
> 

admin should equal tiki_p_admin and vice versa, one of the first
things I do on a TW site is make a new user and give them
tiki_p_admin, and then disable the admin user so that it cannot
be targeted for password attacks to gain access.

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