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This idea came to me when I was trying to formulate a question on this site found here.

Ok, bear with me, before you scream at me not to make every single user a super user, let me explain. This is in need of disambiguation.

What could be the disadvantages and detrimental effects of setting 2?

This is the setting now, setting 1, very regular, nothing special:

Name   Username  Enabled  Activated  User Groups
----   ----      ----     ----       ----
one    one       yes      yes        Administrator
two    two       yes      yes        custom1
three  three     yes      yes        custom2
derp   derp      yes      yes        Super Users

What if I changed it to this, setting 2?:

Name   Username  Enabled  Activated  User Groups
----   ----      ----     ----       ----
one    one       yes      yes        Administrator
two    two       yes      yes        custom1
three  three     yes      yes        custom2
derp   derp      yes      yes        Super Users, Administrator, custom1, custom2

To be very clear, this, setting 3, would be suicide and I don't mean to do this. I am aware that's not any better than doing something like sudo rm / -rf on a linux machine (for the record, don't do this!).

Name   Username  Enabled  Activated  User Groups
----   ----      ----     ----       ----
one    one       yes      yes        Administrator, Super Users
two    two       yes      yes        custom1, Super Users
three  three     yes      yes        custom2, Super Users
derp   derp      yes      yes        Super Users

Setting 2 would be a solution to my predicament in my recent other question (same link as above).

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    Your setting 2 looks fine to me. By the way, the best tutorial information I've come across regarding Joomla ACL and Access is at docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Access_Control_List_Tutorial and the video at youtu.be/CFqXAc3orkY (between 2 mins and 32 mins is the section to watch). Sep 10, 2020 at 21:47
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    To be able to answer what the advantages/disadvantages of a particular structure we would need to know a lot more about your requirements. By default Joomla provides the ACL in Hierarchical format which is the same as the document linked by @RobbieJackson . I would suggest you also look at a Roles Based ACL structure which if nothing else will help you understand the Joomla ACL better. I prefer roles based for sites needing anything more than the basics. This is Joomla specific as a start, magazine.joomla.org/all-issues/september-2012/…
    – Irata
    Sep 11, 2020 at 0:45

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In fact, Setting 2 would only make sense to me if you..

...Have no inheritance of permissions to the top

...Only one usergroup has access to a specific task

Then it makes sense, if the superuser should simply have all tasks / views / options of the custom 1/2 groups this can be solved by inheritance in a cleaner way.

Edit: indeed superuser has no inherited permissions my idea was to create a custom „superuser“ aka build a structure with groups and privileges inherited as you need it.

I think you already know this page but for other readers, here the ACL structure is explained:

https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Access_Control_List_Tutorial

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  • I'm not sure I understand. ~~Super User~~ derp does not inherit viewing access from custom groups automatically. I have to make derp a member of custom groups to view custom group content on the front end. You say there's a cleaner way to solve this by inheritance. I am very interested in that solution, if I may ask you to add it to your answer.
    – thymaro
    Sep 16, 2020 at 8:40
  • see my edit - sorry i‘ve not noted everything clearly... an own group structure would be the way i would go...
    – Marco
    Sep 17, 2020 at 10:44

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