drupal core admin tips 6.14
Creating an admin role
Consider creating a custom role for admin. Principally I do this in order for user1 not to be online all the time, as a simple security precaution. In order for me to perform standard admin I create an "admin user" role and assign that one the needed admin privileges. Note that such an admin won't be able to update/upgrade without making the needed true/false changes in settings file. Quicker to log on as user1 at that time.