A site admin asked me: can I set up a group and then grant admin rights
to someone else. Here's how this works.
When you start a site, you are the Site Administrator. A Site Admin can
do the following.
Start groups.
Change group settings like privacy,
moderation, and description.
Change the site title, home page text,
and timezone.
Set up a custom domain for the site.
Make people Group Admin for a group.
Everything that a Group Admin can do.
A Group Admin can look after a group, but not change the way the group
is set up. A Group Admin can do the following.
Invite members to join.
Remove members.
Change the moderation status of
group members (in a moderated group).
I take it that means "no." Unless that is, a site admin can change his/her
email address, profile info, etc. -- which would accomplish the same result.
Most other group hosting services I've looked at allow the creator to grant
co-owner or at least co-administrator rights to someone else who then can do
all the oversight and management.
Hi Lew,
I'm sorry, I did not answer your whole question in my first post. The system is
in fact designed to support the task you describe, depending on how you
interpret "all the oversight and management". Once a group is set up, a group
admin can do all the management. What they can't do is change the settings of
the group. We consider this a bug, not a feature (as changing the group
settings after people join could breach the contract under which group members
joined).
Effectively, the structure of a site with multiple groups gives you the status
of group hosting service provider. You can create as many groups as you like
and delegate administration of them to others.
If, however, you want to share the administration of the site with another
person, right now you can not do that via the site interface. Arguably this is
a bug, not a feature, but we have bugs of higher priority.
http://svn.iopen.net/projects/groupserver/report/12
If you would like to share site admin status with someone else, just email
their profile url to <email obscured> and we'll gladly set that up for
you.
