[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8317: New installs: admin has user_level 0

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#8317: New installs: admin has user_level 0
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 Reporter:  Mr Pete  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General  |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 On a fresh install of WordPress, the admin user begins with user_level ==
 0 (even thought level_10 works fine.)

 This seems rather serious to me. It breaks any plugin, widget or theme
 feature that makes use of $user_level to identify administrators.

 It's easy to check:
 {{{
 global $current_user;
 get_currentuserinfo();
 echo "level:".$user_level."<br />";
 exit;
 }}}

 This was not a problem in 2.3.3; it is a problem from 2.5 onward at least
 through the current trunk.

 All of my test systems have user level 10, so it somehow gets "fixed"
 after running a while. However, in the first week of my new plugin's
 release, I have had several user reports that my plugin is broken, and I
 traced it down to this issue. It wasn't my plugin, it was the fact that
 they had new installs of WordPress.

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