Forum OpenACS Q&A: Can I define multiple administrators?

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1: Can I define multiple administrators?
Posted by Reuven Lerner on 10/15/02 01:58 PM
I'm in a situation on several sites where I would like to have two
site  administrators.  I know how to grant people subsite "admin"
status, but it would be nice to have both people (myself and an
employee) be given full-blown admin status.

I have a funny feeling that the solution is a Unix-like one, in which
we create a shared "root" account that isn't associated with any one
person, to which we "su" as necessary.  But this strikes me as
somewhat inelegant.  Any ideas?

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2: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Ola Hansson on 10/15/02 02:28 PM
Reuven,

I'm not sure I perfectly understand what you're after, but you can give any user "site-wide admin rights" by granting "admin" to that user on object 0 (zero). The UI for this is somewhat opaque, but I figure you'll find your way from the permissions/ page.

If you're talking about the file system, then both of you will want to belong to the "web" group.

HTH.

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3: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Reuven Lerner on 10/15/02 02:46 PM
Thanks, Ola!  Giving permission to object 0 is exactly what I was looking for.  It's rather obvious now, but that wasn't the case several hours ago!
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4: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Yonatan Feldman on 10/15/02 04:26 PM
i believe the adminstrator's view of a user has a link to make a user a site-wide admin which is precisely granting them admin on object 0. just thought you'd want to know that there is a ui for this.
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5: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Reuven Lerner on 10/15/02 04:38 PM
Yon,

I just opened up the user page as a site admin, and don't see a link for this.  What should I be looking for?

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6: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 10/15/02 04:50 PM
If you are logged on as a sitewide admin it should show up at
the bottom of acs-admin/users/one?user_id=XXXX
It only went in a couple weeks ago though so unless you have a 4.6
or recent HEAD checkout you won't have it.
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7: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Yonatan Feldman on 10/15/02 04:51 PM
it's in the dotlrn admin user page. my bad, i just assumed that i had ripped it off from the openacs admin user page.
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8: Response to Can I define multiple administrators? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 10/15/02 06:38 PM
Jeff's got it - it's in our 4.6 pre-release not 4.5 ...