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Fri, 06 Jun 2008, 3:16pm Question about Administration »
Trevor
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The first user account created is given admin privileges - I should make this more clear in the initial setup. That user (the admin) is the only one made automatically, but you can make others with that account. Essentially, they have privileges to do anything, while a regular user can only do things with their own account and the things they've created. One thing worth noting is that a user can delete anything they've created, including forum threads. This is a byproduct of having an extremely simple permission system. You can read more about it here:

http://almosteffortless.com/2008/01/07/simplify...

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