The user/1 account (is about to be) renamed to "Maintenance account" at #570572: Change label for user/1 account from "administrator" to "site maintenance account". With this change we indicate to the person installing the site they should create a second account for daily tasks and use the Maintenance account for upgrades and other administrative tasks. Xano has suggested automatically creating a second "regular" account.

This issue is merely splitting the discussion into two to avoid scope creep on the initial patch.

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emmajane’s picture

emmajane commented
Title: Create "regular" account on site install » Create a second, "regular" account on site install

Updating the title.

David_Rothstein’s picture

David_Rothstein commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

See #497500: Create an administrator account in the default install profile, separate from user 1

mcrittenden’s picture

mcrittenden commented
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

I'm a little worried about doing this, just because creating two accounts at once could definitely add to the confusion. Will the two users have different permissions. Obviously user 1 will be able to do everything, and user 2 will be an administrator, but does that mean that by default, there are things that user 2 can't do? If so, IMHO it makes more sense to let user 2 be created by user 1 after the site is built since that account won't be useful until then anyway. Thoughts?

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mcrittenden commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Oops, crossposted.