[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5942: Add Owner role

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#5942: Add Owner role
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 Reporter:  tellyworth   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.5      
Component:  General      |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  has-patch
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 This patch adds a new 'owner' role.  The owner is an administrator who
 cannot be demoted, deleted or edited by other administrators.  Owner is a
 secondary role - the user is both an administrator and an owner.

 In the current implementation there is only one owner at a time.  The
 current owner can transfer ownership of the blog to another administrator
 on the Transfer Ownership tab (under Users).  I implemented this as a
 plugin because some site owners won't want the feature there at all.

 This is of most interest for MU, but it's also probably useful for some
 regular WordPress blogs with multiple users.

 This would be particularly useful in conjunction with the user_role table
 from #5541, but it works fine with or without it.

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