I notice there were some CVS checkins about renaming it to the 'emergency user'. Cool, does this mean you're going to be able to define a manager at install-time?
Yes - the whole lame login-as-superuser-create-a-manager-and-relogin process will be gone in 2.3. At install time you'll create a first manager and just use that. A "superuser" will not even exist, unless and until you need it and explicitly create it.
Hmmm, if so, what is it that the emergency/super user can do that a normal manager can't?
He can un-screw permissions or users if you ever manage to get totally locked out of your site. Think of it as a user mounted in a box on the wall labeled "in case of emergency, break glass". In practice, few should ever have to break the glass. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com