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.
Yay!
As Max asked, any 2.3 timeframe? Python Scripts and no Super User alone make it _very_ enticing :-))
I would reeeeeaaally like to see a beta by the end of Dec. - but don't quote me yet. Part of what I'm doing today is figuring what the resource situation looks like.
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".
How does this differ from a normal manager and how would you 'create a super user' as you descriebd in the bit I snipped?
An example might be: if somehow someone took all permissions away from all of your managers, they'd be out of luck. The superuser could still log in and fix that though. I don't know the exact details of how a superuser is created yet - I expect that you will run zpasswd.py with a special option though (and restart). The relevant install docs will be updated to outline this when that branch is merged. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com