Multiple Admin Accounts

[walkingby]

What would it take to have multiple admin accounts? I assumed changing the "account_type" field in the database to "admin" would allow for this, but it seems to be more complex than this. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Brian

[Ben]

Hi Brian,

Yeah, I doubt that'll work. The reason being, a lot of the code assumes there's only a single administrator account - the first one (account ID = 1).

May I ask, why do you need multiple accounts? All will have exactly the same permissions, of course.

- Ben

[walkingby]

Hi Ben,

Basically...there will be multiple "admin" users of this specific install. ...and unfortunately the turnover rate is extremely high, so they are very concerned about security. Simply put...they are lazy and not wanting to change passwords every time someone leaves.
(...which in my opinion is silly because they'd have to take the time anyways to create new admin accounts....so it's really more of a can this "easily" happen. ...which the obvious answer before I asked the question was "not really" ...but I thought I'd ask anyways...just to see if I may have overlooked something.

...but it brings up a valid item for the "Feature Suggestions." I have had the need for an "in-between" account. Not a user...but not quite an admin....where they have access to "some" features the admin has...but not all.

Thanks for the response!

Brian

Hi Brian,

Yeah, I doubt that'll work. The reason being, a lot of the code assumes there's only a single administrator account - the first one (account ID = 1).

May I ask, why do you need multiple accounts? All will have exactly the same permissions, of course.

- Ben

[Ben]

Yeah, adding some sort of fine-tuning to the account permissions really is a must. *sigh* I wish I could quit my day job. So much to do on this project...!

- Ben