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A default Drupal installation has different Roles for anonymous users and authenticated users. It also has one user defined as an Administrator but he or she is not in a speical role instead the Admin account is simply added to the authenticated users role. This isn’t a big deal most of the time because each module that needs to simply checks to see if the user logged in is the Administrator and if so the module gives the user access to everything. The problem comes when you want to define more than one Administrator or you have modules that require you to assign them to specific roles.

Enter the Admin Role Module

A common solution to this problem is to create a new role called Administrators and then add your Admin account to it along with any other accounts you want to have Admin access. This works great, the only annoyance is that whenever you add a new module you need to remember to go into the permissions section of your site and add your Administrator Role to it. This is tedious and also somewhat error prone. The Admin Role Module simply does this step for you.